16 U.S.C. § 604 : US Code - Section 604: Cutting timber on certain mineral lands; permits to corporations; railroad corporations

Search 16 U.S.C. § 604 : US Code - Section 604: Cutting timber on certain mineral lands; permits to corporations; railroad corporations

All citizens of the United States and other persons, bona fide
residents of the States of Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona,
Utah, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, or Montana, and
all other mineral districts of the United States, are authorized
and permitted to fell and remove, for building, agricultural,
mining, or other domestic purposes, any timber or other trees
growing or being on the public lands, said lands being mineral, and
not subject to entry under existing laws of the United States,
except for mineral entry, in said States or districts of which such
citizens or persons may be at the time bona fide residents, subject
to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may
prescribe for the protection of the timber and of the undergrowth
growing upon such lands, and for other purposes. It shall be lawful
for the Secretary of the Interior to grant permits in accordance
with the provisions of this section, to corporations incorporated
under a Federal law of the United States or incorporated under the
laws of a State or Territory of the United States, other than the
State in which the privilege is requested. Such permits to confer
the same rights and benefits upon such corporations as are
conferred upon corporations incorporated in the State in which the
privilege is to be exercised, but all such corporations shall first
have complied with the laws of that State so as to entitle them to
do business therein. The provisions of this section and sections
605 and 606 of this title shall not extend to railroad
corporations.