---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 611"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "611"
heading: "Permits to cut and remove timber; citizens of Idaho and Wyoming"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/611"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Protection of Timber, and Depredations"
---

# §611. Permits to cut and remove timber; citizens of Idaho and Wyoming


It shall be lawful for the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior to grant permits under the provisions of [section 607 of this title](/usc/16/607.md), to citizens of Idaho and Wyoming to cut timber in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Wyoming west of the Continental Divide on the Snake River and its tributaries to the boundary line of Idaho, for agricultural, mining, or other domestic purposes, and to remove the timber so cut to the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Idaho.


## Source credit

(Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, § 8 (part), as added July 1, 1898, ch. 546, § 1, 30 Stat. 618.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is derived from act July 1, 1898, which recites that it amends section 8 of act Mar. 3, 1891, which is the source of section 607 of this title, by adding this section thereto. Section 8 of act Mar. 3, 1891, is classified to sections 607, 608 to 611a of this title.