State Vs. Federal Land Management: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Lands of the Committee on Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, on Management Transfer of Public Lands from the Federal Government to the States, June 20, 1995--Washington, DC.

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Page 57 - the same period the private sector was being transformed from a world of small businesses to one of large national corporations. The US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service and other federal agencies
Page 71 - in many states. Similar lands and similar duties: How could these agencies achieve such drastically different results? I believe the answer to this question lies in the fact that both
Page 27 - President of the United States or the Congress of the United States
Page 35 - incentive for people to work hard, so many do not. There is no incentive to save money, so
Page 20 - And that is what we have been trying to do, is to
Page 38 - one of the problems I think we have had in trying to
Page 5 - different agencies with jurisdictions over the same ecosystem do not work well together. Even within the same agency, bureaus fight • one another.
Page 45 - Different agencies, with jurisdictions over the same ecosystem, do not work well together. Even within the same agency, bureaus fight one another.
Page 35 - Thank you very much for coming here today and for your testimony.
Page 58 - meetings of western governors passed resolutions asking Congress to transfer the remaining public land (outside the national forests) to the states. In 1930, in the wake of

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