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[CITE: 16USC554]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
      CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 554. Forest supervisors and rangers

    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, Sec. 3, 33 Stat. 628.)

                          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.
