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# 16 U.S.C. § 554 - Forest supervisors and rangers

## Text

Forest supervisors and rangers shall be selected, when practicable, from qualified citizens of the States or Territories in which the national forests, respectively, are situated.

(Feb. 1, 1905, ch. 288, § 3, 33 Stat. 628.)

## Notes

Editorial Notes

Codification “National forests” substituted in text for “reserves” on authority of act Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, 34 Stat. 1269, which provided that forest reserves shall hereafter be known as national forests.