Additions to the National Wilderness Preservation System: Joint Oversight Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Lands, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, and the Subcommittee on Forests, Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session ....U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 - Forest policy |
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... sawtimber sale availability down to the neighborhood of 10 billion board feet . We have carefully - somewhat alleged too carefully - returned most of that timber to the sawtimber sales base to our nonwilderness recommendations ...
... sawtimber sale availability down to the neighborhood of 10 billion board feet . We have carefully - somewhat alleged too carefully - returned most of that timber to the sawtimber sales base to our nonwilderness recommendations ...
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... timber sale offerings have averaged 11.5 billion board feet over the past 3 years . Within the next 3 to 5 years the ... sales . This results from release of areas where harvesting has been deferred for wilder- ness study . The timber ...
... timber sale offerings have averaged 11.5 billion board feet over the past 3 years . Within the next 3 to 5 years the ... sales . This results from release of areas where harvesting has been deferred for wilder- ness study . The timber ...
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... timber sales is based on the assumption that the roadless areas recommended for uses other than wilderness will be available after April 15. Should areas not be avail- able at that time , some further reductions in the sales program ...
... timber sales is based on the assumption that the roadless areas recommended for uses other than wilderness will be available after April 15. Should areas not be avail- able at that time , some further reductions in the sales program ...
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... timber sales only in those areas that have been accessible up to this point and we are overcutting some areas because we have been so constrained by the RARE II process- Mr. JOHNSON . By your own decision ? Mr. CUTLER . Right . Mr ...
... timber sales only in those areas that have been accessible up to this point and we are overcutting some areas because we have been so constrained by the RARE II process- Mr. JOHNSON . By your own decision ? Mr. CUTLER . Right . Mr ...
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... timber sales and permitting other development to avoid obvious areas of unnecessary controversy . If we have problems in meeting supply needs of industries that are dependent upon those nonwilderness areas , we have to take that into ...
... timber sales and permitting other development to avoid obvious areas of unnecessary controversy . If we have problems in meeting supply needs of industries that are dependent upon those nonwilderness areas , we have to take that into ...
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1979 CONGRUENCE/CONFLICT INDEX acreage acres AREA NAME ALLOC AREAS IN DECREASING billion board feet board feet California Chairman Colville National Forest committee Congress CONGRUENCE/CONFLICT INDEX RANKING county's CREEK NW CUTLER decision DECREASING CONTROVERSY ALTERNATIVE evaluation Ferry County Final Environmental Statement forest land FORK FP FP Humboldt County impact IN-STATE PERSONEL LETTERS included inventory JOHNSON Kettle Range million acres mills mineral mmbf potential yield MOUNTAIN NW National Forest System NATIONAL PARK SERVICE nonwilderness NORTH NW FP NW NW PASHAYAN PEAK NW percent proposed public lands RANKING OF AREAS RARE II areas RARE II lands RARE II process Recommend further planning Recommend wilderness recommended for wilderness recreation resource RIDGE RIVER roadless areas sawtimber scenic SEIBERLING Service's Subcommittee timber TOTAL IN-STATE PERSONEL Trinity Alps Trinity County Trinity Journal U.S. Forest Service water quality WEAVER Wilderness Act wilderness areas wilderness designation wilderness study wildlife
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Page 555 - Such regulations shall provide for the preservation from injury or spoliation of all timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders within said park, and their retention in their natural condition.
Page 76 - ... the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 as amended by the National...
Page 181 - Act or other provisions of the authority of the Administrator, contained in any (1) legislation proposed by any Federal department or agency, (2) newly authorized Federal projects for construction and any major Federal agency action (other...
Page 77 - Act shall be deemed to be in interference with the purpose for which national forests are established as set forth in the Act of June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 11), and the Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of June 12, 1960 (74 Stat.
Page 556 - Rivers; thence east to the place of beginning, is hereby reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, or sale under the laws of the United States, and dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people...
Page 72 - 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; that some...
Page 640 - While the figure may be the clear-cut equivalent of the average annual harvest it in no way Indicates what really happened on the ground. Since the areas thus assumed to be clear-cut are then removed from the resource base (though they really weren't necessarily clear-cut) their remaining timber never again appears in the projections of future cut and growth. On the other hand, substantial areas covered by salvage or relogging connected with stand rehabilitation projects doesn't show up as harvested...
Page 640 - In six more classes totalling 466, 74p acres or 24 percent of the sawtlmber area, sample plots were not checked unless they had more than 10,000 board feet per acre in 1967. In three of these stand classes wherein only some sample plots were checked harvest (aa Indicated by the plots) did occur. In the other three It may well have occurred (and had an effect on future growth and volume), but was not Indicated because not all 1967 plots were re-checked. However, checking only 36 percent (206) of the...
Page 469 - The component of the regulated (FSM 2415.3) commercial forest land area on which crops of industrial wood can be grown and harvested with adequate protection of the forest resources under the usual provisions of the timber sale contract. This...
Page 638 - Inventory plus a large area of timber not yet big enough to ir.iijure in board feet. Oswald states that his results are based on assumptions which (as In the case of yield prediction) if 20 percent off will produce results that are 20 percent off. However he soon treats them as factual. For example, he acknowledges that Sonoma and Mendoclno can (even under his "scenarios") nustaln current production indefinitely.