This Chapter is divided into the following subchapters: Subchapter I – General Provisions laying down rules and regulations regarding the protection of national forests including planning for fires protection, wildland firefighter safety, duties of officials of Forest Service, stock laws; protection of fish and game including forest supervisors, rangers, employees; forest headquarters, ranger stations, dwellings, or other needed sites; appropriations for forest service; use for transportation or traveling expenses; preparation or publication of newspaper or magazine articles; employees of Forest Service; personal equipment; supplies, and medical attention; arrests by employees of Forest Service for violations of laws and regulations; use of timber for telephone lines for fire protection; forest experiment stations; cooperation with states for fire protection on private or state forest lands upon the watersheds of navigable rivers; donations to United States of lands for timber purposes; ascertainment by Secretary of Agriculture of public lands valuable for stream-flow protection and report thereof; cooperation between Secretary of Agriculture and public or private agencies in working land under State or private ownership; Forest Service appropriations; National Tree Seed Laboratory; operation of aerial facilities and services,etc; Subchapter II—Investigations, Experiments, and Tests Affecting Reforestation and Forest Products regarding cooperative research, Congressional declaration of policy on reforestation and revegetation, authorization of appropriations for reforestation and revegetation; Subchapter III—Research Programs regarding cooperation cooperation by Secretary of Agriculture with States; assistance: plans, eligible institutions and amount; Subchapter IV—Sustained-Yield Forest Management regarding the establishment of sustained-yield units to stabilize forest industries, employment, communities and taxable wealth; Subchapter V—Forest Foundation regulating the establishment and purpose of the Foundation as well as its structure, duties and responsibilities, and activities. The National Forest Foundation is established as charitable and nonprofit corporation with the purpose of encouraging, accepting, and administering private gifts of money, and of real and personal property for the benefit of the activities and services of the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture; undertaking and conducting activities that further the purposes for which units of the National Forest System are established and are administered and that are consistent with approved forest plans; and undertaking, conducting and encouraginig educational, technical and other assistance, and other activities that support the multiple use, research, cooperative forestry and other programs administered by the Forest Service; Subchapter VI—National Forest System Trails Stewardship setting forth provisions regarding the National Forest System Trails Volunteer and Partnership Strategy, priority trail maintenance program, cooperative agreements, and stewardship credits for outfitters and guides.
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