---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 532"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "532"
heading: "Roads and trails system; Congressional findings and declaration of policy"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/532"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — National Forests"
  - "Subchapter I — Establishment and Administration"
---

# §532. Roads and trails system; Congressional findings and declaration of policy


The Congress hereby finds and declares that the construction and maintenance of an adequate [system](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=14) of roads and trails within and near the [national forests](/usc/16/5207.md?p=3) and other lands administered by the Forest Service is essential if increasing demands for timber, recreation, and other [uses](/usc/16/410hhh–1.md?p=10) of such lands are to be met; that the existence of such a [system](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=14) would have the effect, among other things, of increasing the value of timber and other [resources](/usc/16/410hhh–1.md?p=8) tributary to such roads; and that such a [system](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=14) is essential to enable the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of Agriculture (hereinafter called the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1)) to provide for intensive use, protection, development, and management of these lands under principles of [multiple use](/usc/16/531.md?p=a) and sustained yield of products and services.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 88–657, § 1, Oct. 13, 1964, 78 Stat. 1089.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

Pub. L. 88–657, Oct. 13, 1964, 78 Stat. 1089, which enacted sections 532 et seq. of this title, is popularly known as the “Forest Roads and Trails Act”.