16 U.S.C. § 583
Section 583 · Establishment of sustained-yield units to stabilize forest industries, employment, communities and taxable wealth
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case 325 F. Supp. 99 - Sierra Club v. Hardin (1971)
Most recently applied in 301 F. Supp. 3d 1010 - Jarita Mesa Livestock Grazing Ass'n v. U.S. Forest Serv. & Diana Trujillo (October 2017)
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.
In order to promote the stability of forest industries, of employment, of communities, and of taxable forest wealth, through continuous supplies of timber; in order to provide for a continuous and ample supply of forest products; and in order to secure the benefits of forests in maintenance of water supply, regulation of stream flow, prevention of soil erosion, amelioration of climate, and preservation of wildlife, the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior are severally authorized to establish by formal declaration, when in their respective judgments such action would be in the public interest, cooperative sustained-yield units which shall consist of federally owned or administered forest land under the jurisdiction of the Secretary establishing the unit and, in addition thereto, land which reasonably may be expected to be made the subject of one or more of the cooperative agreements with private landowners authorized by section 583a of this title.