Forest Service Reform: Oversight Hearings Before the Subcommittees on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands and Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Natural Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, on the Forest Service's Role in Preserving the Nation's Natural Resources and in Sustaining Their Long-term Economic Productivity, February 1, 1994 and February 3, 1994--Washington, DC.Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche. |
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acres activities administration AFSEEE agency's appropriate areas biological board feet budget Chairman Committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Congressional conservation costs CRIA DEFAZIO Del Norte County develop district diversity ecological economic ecosystem management Employment Training Programs environmental federal land FEMAT fish and wildlife forest plans forestry Fund GAO/HRD-94-16BR Redwood Employment goals going Greater Yellowstone habitat Humboldt County Idaho Panhandle impacts implement increased issues Jack Ward LAROCCO law enforcement LIBRARY OF CONGRESS logging management redirection million monitoring National Forest Management National Park natural resources NFMA Northern spotted owl Office option 9 Oregon outputs Pacific Northwest percent personnel problems professional protection public lands Randal O'Toole receipts recreation reduce Redwood Employment Training Redwood National Park reforestation reform Region resource management road species stewardship stumpage sustainable testimony Thomas timber harvest timber sales Tongass U.S. Forest Service values VENTO Washington watershed wilderness workers
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Page 114 - A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
Page 165 - Interior transferred from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of the Interior by Reorg.
Page 368 - The days have ended when the forest may be viewed only as trees and trees viewed only as timber. The soil and the water, the grasses and the shrubs, the fish and the wildlife, and the beauty that is the forest must become integral parts of resource managers
Page 274 - the use of an ecological approach to achieve multipleuse management of the national forests and grasslands by blending the needs of people and environmental values in such a way that the national forests and grasslands represent diverse, healthy, productive, and sustainable ecosystems.
Page 170 - Heeds to Improve Efforts to Reduce Below-Cost Timber Sales (GAO/T-RCED-91-43, Apr. 25, 1991). Forest Service Needs to Improve Efforts to Protect the Government's Financial Interest and Reduce Below-Cost Timber Sales (GAO/T-RCED91-42, Apr. 24, 1991).
Page 239 - Effective, entrepreneurial governments transform their cultures by decentralizing authority. They empower those who work on the front lines to make more of their own decisions and solve more of their own problems.
Page 174 - Idaho-- may have to salmon spawning habitat. ^Federal Fire Management: Limited Progress in Restarting the Prescribed Fire Program (GAO/RCED-91-42, Dec.
Page 272 - It's a joint hearing of the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, and the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.