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

# §611a. Permits to cut and remove timber; citizens of Bear Lake County, Idaho


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized to grant permits, subject to the provisions of [section 607 of this title](/usc/16/607.md), to citizens of Bear Lake County, Idaho, to cut and remove timber on the unappropriated public domain in Lincoln County, Wyoming, for domestic use in Bear Lake County, Idaho: Provided, That no live standing timber shall be taken without compensation.


## Source credit

(Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, § 8 (part), as added Aug. 21, 1935, ch. 591, 49 Stat. 665.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is derived from act Aug. 1, 1935, which recites that it amends section 8 of act Mar. 31, 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.