Pennsylvania Statutes Title 32 P.S. Forests, Waters and State Parks § 571. Lumbermen may pass over unimproved lands

It shall be lawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation, engaged in the business of lumbering in the counties of Clinton, Centre, Clearfield and Elk, to pass and re-pass over the unimproved land of any other person or persons, to enable the said person or persons, firm or corporation, so engaged in lumbering, his or their agents and employés, to have ingress and egress to and from the timber lands or mills upon or at, while they are engaged in said business; and it shall be lawful for the person or persons, firm or corporation, so engaged in lumbering, to lay out and open all roads which he or they may deem necessary, upon any unimproved lands, for the purpose of transporting his or their logs, timber, lumber, shingles or other property, and to take, use and occupy such unimproved land, (not being used or occupied by the owner or owners of said land,) as shall be necessary for the purpose of piling and banking the said logs, timber, lumber, shingles or other property: Provided, That the rights granted by this section shall not be exercised until the owner or owners of the land so taken, used and occupied, shall be fully prepaid the damages he or they shall sustain by reason thereof, or the same shall be secured to him or them as provided in the second section of this act.  1