From a Monday, December 5, 2005 article on the New West Network site . . .
(Note: The Missoulian also posted coverage on December 3.)
Forest management decisions need to be made at the local level, with input from locals who will be affected, U.S. Senator Conrad Burns told an audience packed with government officials, industry leaders and environmentalists at a hearing in Missoula today.
The Republican Montana Senator called for a more unified approach by the U.S. Forest Service as it conducts forest management plan revisions across the Northern Region.
“The problem is, you’ve got people in the Forest Service with different agendas,” Burns said at the hearing for the Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies, of which he chairs. “There should be one philosophy, and everyone should be working toward that philosophy.”
The trouble, however, seems to be in finding one philosophy that can work in an increasingly polarized arena.
Read the entire article . . .
Posted by nfpa at December 5, 2005 12:42 PM