16 U.S.C. § 353 — Leases

This section gives the Secretary of the Interior three related powers to manage a national park. First, the Secretary may lease parcels of park land, at his discretion, so long as no single lease covers more than twenty acres or runs longer than twenty years, whenever the land is needed to build places for visitors to stay. Second, the Secretary may grant other privileges and concessions for visitors that he judges wise for their accommodation — the section does not spell out what these might be beyond that. Third, the Secretary may arrange to remove mature, dead, or fallen timber, whenever he judges it necessary to protect and improve the park.