16 U.S.C. § 64 — Sale or disposal of timber; destruction of detrimental animal or plant life

This section is a savings clause — it protects existing authority rather than creating new rules. Nothing in sections 57, 58, and 60 to 65 of this title should be read as repealing or changing the authority Congress already gave the Secretary of the Interior under section 3 of the August 25, 1916 Act. That existing authority lets the Secretary sell or dispose of timber in national parks when, in the Secretary's judgment, cutting the timber is needed to control insect or disease attacks, or otherwise to conserve the scenery of the parks' natural or historic features. It also lets the Secretary destroy animals and plant life that are harmful to how the parks are used. This section also preserves the Secretary's separate authority under sections 51 to 54 of this title.