---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 616"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "616"
heading: "Exportation of timber cut on national forest or public land in Alaska"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/616"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Protection of Timber, and Depredations"
---

# §616. Exportation of timber cut on national forest or public land in Alaska


Timber lawfully cut on any national forest, or on the [public lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=7) in Alaska, may be exported from the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) or Territory where grown if, in the judgment of the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the department administering the national forests, or the [public lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=7) in Alaska, the supply of timber for local use will not be endangered thereby, and the respective [Secretaries](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) concerned are authorized to issue rules and regulations to carry out the purposes of this section.


## Source credit

(Apr. 12, 1926, § 1, ch. 117, 44 Stat. 242.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Admission of Alaska as State

Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85–508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.