The President's Healthy Forests Inmitiative: Hearing Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First Session, April 30, 2003 |
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Page 53 - Our mission is to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive.
Page 51 - Initiative is based upon a common-sense approach to reducing the threat of catastrophic wildfires by restoring forest and rangeland health. Our goal is to ensure the longterm safety and health of communities and natural resources in our care. Our responsibility is to ensure the long-term health of our forests and rangelands for the use, benefit and enjoyment of our citizens and for generations to come.
Page 28 - I would like to thank you for the opportunity to testify today, and I would be happy to answer any questions you might have.
Page 79 - ... place they occur (MacDonnell and Bates 1993). With so much variation in ecological systems, as well as regional differences in culture, politics, and economic climate, no two issues are likely to play out the same way (Lee 1993). Society of American Foresters members have different ideas about how to sustain healthy forests. Members' views about landowners' rights to set forest management objectives influence their perspective about the role of the Society of American Foresters in forest health...
Page 81 - Respond. Local SAF units bear the primary responsibility for analyzing local and regional issues and involving forestry professionals Responses to issues should draw on the best available scientific information and professional experience to acknowledge possible causes, assess the adequacy of data, identify gaps in knowledge, and recommend management response options. Link science and policy. Within each SAF unit, better integration of scientific information about forest conditions and policy to...
Page 47 - We believe these administrative actions will provide Federal land managers with important tools they need to restore these lands to a condition where they can resist disease, insects, and catastrophic fire.
Page 79 - ... 1995b). Some would like this role to be advocacy for certain forest management objectives. Others would like the role to be contributions of scientific expertise. Some members are critical of the organization for not anticipating national issues or developing timely responses, while other members feel that local and regional units of the organization, not the national unit, should be addressing forest health issues (SAP 1993c). But, almost without exception, foresters want a "professional" view...
Page 35 - ... it is not a matter of whether, it is a matter of by whom and how, and it had better be us because they will in fact say: "What do you have on that shuttle you are sending up?
Page 51 - Society has more than 17,000 members dedicated to advancing the science, technology, education, and practice of forestry in the United States for the benefit of society at large.
Page 74 - Forest management objectives are set by landowners (private, public, tribal, trust) and by society through policy or regulation.