Economics of Federal Timber Sales: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Forests, Family Farms, and Energy of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, February 26, 1985; June 5 and 6, 1985 |
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accounting system acres activities agency allocation appropriate BCTS below-cost sales below-cost timber sales Black Hills board feet cash flow Chairman Congress constraints Copeland Creek costs and benefits counties cutting units developed dollar environmental evaluate Federal timber sales Forest Management Act forest plans Forest Service timber funds GOODBAR habitat hearing Idaho impacts increase investments issue Jefferson National Forest land management planning lodgepole pine logging Lolo National Forest MACCLEERY MARLENEE million mountain pine beetle multiple multiple-use National Forest Management National Forest System National Forest timber non-timber OLIN percent PETERSON planning process problem public lands question RARE II receipts recreation reduce Region revenues road construction road costs sale preparation Service's specific subcommittee testimony Thank timber harvest timber management timber production timber program timber sale program trees Twin Rocks U.S. Forest Service WHITLEY wilderness Wilderness Society wildlife habitat
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Page 347 - Multiple use" means: The management of all the various renewable surface resources of the national forests so that they are utilized in the combination that will best meet the needs of the American people; making the most judicious use of the land for some or all of these resources or related services over areas large enough to provide sufficient latitude for periodic adjustments in use to conform to changing needs and conditions...
Page 684 - ... harmonious and coordinated management of the various resources, each with the other, without impairment of the productivity of the land, with consideration being given to the relative values of the various resources, and not necessarily the combination of uses that will give...
Page 421 - When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe " John Muir National Headquarters: 730 Polk Street, San Francisco, California 94109 (415) 776-2211 Hr.
Page 684 - The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to develop and administer the renewable surface resources of the national forests for multiple use and sustained yield of the several products and services obtained therefrom.
Page 149 - Service, including the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974, the National Forest Management Act of 1976, and...
Page 127 - ... to use all practicable means and measures, including financial and technical assistance, in a manner calculated to foster and promote the general welfare, to create and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony, and fulfill the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations of Americans.
Page 286 - In particular, expenditures for timber management are being made in regions, on forests, and on sites where timber values are so low that the areas should be abandoned for timber growing purposes. Other outputs of these forests may be worth managing, and existing stands of trees may be valuable for this purpose, but the growing of more timber is not economically sound.
Page 38 - The subcommittee will stand in recess until 1. (Whereupon, at 12 noon, the subcommittee recessed, to reconvene at 1 pm, the same day.) AFTERNOON SESSION (The subcommittee reconvened at 1:10 pm, Senator Walter F.
Page 289 - In developing land management plans pursuant to this Act, the Secretary shall identify lands within the management area which are not suited for timber production, considering physical, economic , and other pertinent factors...
Page 119 - Roads that provide service to large land areas and usually connect with public highways or other forest arterial roads to form an integrated network of primary travel routes. The location and standard are often determined by a demand for maximum mobility and travel efficiency rather than specific resource management service.