---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 6706"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "6706"
heading: "Institutes of Tropical Forestry"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/6706"
units:
  - "Chapter 96 — Global Climate Change"
---

# §6706. Institutes of Tropical Forestry


The Secretary is authorized and directed to establish an [Institute](/usc/7/4531.md?p=6) of Tropical Forestry in Puerto Rico and an [Institute](/usc/7/4531.md?p=6) of Pacific Islands Forestry (hereafter in this section referred to as the “[Institutes](/usc/7/4531.md?p=6)”). The [Institutes](/usc/7/4531.md?p=6) shall conduct research on forest management and natural resources that shall include—

- (1) management and development of tropical forests;
- (2) the relationship between climate change and tropical forests;
- (3) threatened and endangered species;
- (4) recreation and tourism;
- (5) development of tropical forest resources on a sustained yield basis;
- (6) techniques to monitor the health and productivity of tropical forests;
- (7) tropical forest regeneration and restoration; and
- (8) the effects of tropical deforestation on biodiversity, global climate, wildlife, soils, and water.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–624, title XXIV, § 2407, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4060.)