16 U.S.C. § 528
Section 528 · Development and administration of renewable surface resources for multiple use and sustained yield of products and services; Congressional declaration of policy and purpose
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 129 court decisions — leading case Sierra Club v. Morton (1972)
Most recently applied in Foster Logging, Inc. v. United States (August 2020)
Cases citing this section usually also cite 16 U.S.C. § 1604 · 5 U.S.C. § 706 · 42 U.S.C. § 4321
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
It is the policy of the Congress that the national forests are established and shall be administered for outdoor recreation, range, timber, watershed, and wildlife and fish purposes. The purposes of sections 528 to 531 of this title are declared to be supplemental to, but not in derogation of, the purposes for which the national forests were established as set forth in section 475 of this title. Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the jurisdiction or responsibilities of the several States with respect to wildlife and fish on the national forests. Nothing herein shall be construed so as to affect the use or administration of the mineral resources of national forest lands or to affect the use or administration of Federal lands not within national forests.
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Short Title
Section 5 of Pub. L. 86–517, as added Pub. L. 94–588, §19, Oct. 22, 1976, 90 Stat. 2962, provided that: “This Act [enacting this section and sections 529 to 531 of this title] may be cited as the ‘Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960’.”