The McSweeney-McNary Act of 1928 is an article of
Americanlegislation that was
enacted on May 22, 1928. The law created the directive to implement "…a comprehensive survey of the present and prospective requirements for timber and other forest products of the United States."[1] The Act was sponsored by
SenatorCharles L. McNary from
Oregon and Senator
John Sweeney from
Ohio.[2]
The Act led to the creation of the first major survey of US forestry reserves and aimed to address four areas of forest management - to complete an inventory of timber reserves, an assessment of forest growth phases, a study of forest depletion and estimate requirements for forest products.[3] The survey began in 1929 in the
Douglas fir region of Oregon and
Washington based out of the
Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station and was led by
Thornton T. Munger, a research scientist for the
U.S. Forest Service.[4]
The McSweeney-McNary Act was
repealed and replaced by the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research Act of 1978.[5]
^Doig, Ivan (November 1977). Early forestry research: a history of the Pacific Northwest Forest & Range Experiment Station, 1925-1975. Washington: United States Forest Service. p. 10.
^"Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research Act of 1978".
Act No. 307 of 30 June 1978(PDF). United States Congress. p. 4-5.