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Forest Management Issues
September 2003
BNA's Web Watch is prepared by Laura
Gordon-Murnane. E-mail suggestions for future weekly topics
always welcome.
Federal Government
White House
Healthy
Forest Initiative
Healthy
Forests : An Initiative for Wildfire Prevention and Stronger Communities
Congress
Pending Legislation
Collaborative
Forest Health Act (Introduced in Senate) (S.1314)
America's
Healthy Forest Restoration and Research Act (Introduced in Senate)
(S. 1449)
Community
and Forest Protection Act (Introduced in Senate) (S. 1352)
Forestry
and Community Assistance Act of 2003, S. 1453
Community
and Forest Protection Act (Introduced in House) H.R. 2639
Healthy
Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (Introduced in House) (H.R.
1904)
Congressional Reports
House Committee on Resources
Committee
Report America's Most Threatened Forests
Congressional Research Service Reports
Wildfire
Protection in the 108th Congress Updated August 5, 2003
Ross W. Gorte Resources, Science, and Industry Division
The
National Forest System Roadless Areas Initiative 22-Jan-2002
Pamela Baldwin;
CRS Report RS20822, Forest
Ecosystem Health: An Overview.
Federal Register – Final Rules
The U.S. Forest Service published a final
rule July 29
National Environmental Policy Act Documentation Needed for Limited
Timber Harvest; Notice of final interim directive
Federal Register - Effect of Wildfire Management Decisions; Administration
of Forest Management Decisions; Final
Rule (68 Fed. Reg. 33,794)
National Environmental Policy Act Determination Needed for Fire
Management Activities; Categorical Exclusions; Notice
(68 Fed. Reg. 33,814)
USDA
USDA Office of Inspector General. "Forest
Service: National Fire Plan Implementation." Western Region
Audit Report. Report No. 08601-26-SF. November 2001.
USDA Forest Service
The
Process Predicament June 2002
Also:
Appendix
A
Appendix
B
Appendix
C
The USDA Forest Service and the Department of the Interior
A
Collaborative Approach for Reducing Wildland Fire Risks to Communities
and the
Environment: 10-Year Comprehensive Strategy, (Aug. 2001).
USDA Forest Service
Protecting
People and Sustaining Resources in Fire-Adapted Ecosystems: A Cohesive
Strategy (October 13, 2000)
USDA Forest Service and Department of the Interior
Joint Categorical
Exclusions for Hazardous Fuels Reduction and for Fire Rehabilitation
General Accounting Office
Wildland
Fires: Forest Service's Removal of Timber Burned by Wildland Fires
GAO-03-808R Forest (July 10, 2003)
Information
on Forest Service Decisions Involving Fuels Reduction Activities
(May 2003)
WILDLAND
FIRES Better Information Needed on Effectiveness of Emergency Stabilization
and Rehabilitation Treatments (April 2003)
"Severe
Wildland Fires: Leadership and Accountability Needed to Reduce Risks
to Communities and Resources." GAO-02-259. January, 2002;
Wildland
Fires: Forest Service's Removal of Timber Burned by Wildland Fires
Forest
Service: appeals and litigation of fuel reduction projects.
GAO-01-1114R. Washington, D.C.: General Accounting Office, August
31.
FOREST
SERVICE Little Progress on Performance Accountability Likely Unless
Management Addresses Key Challenges
National Interagency Fire Center
Review
and Update of the 1995 Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy,
Report to the Secretaries of the Interior, of Agriculture, of Energy,
of Defense, and of Commerce; the Administrator, Environmental Protection
Agency; and the Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency, by
an Interagency Federal Wildland Fire Policy Review Working Group
(Jan. 2001).
National Academy Of Public Administration
Managing
Wildland Fire: Enhancing Capacity to Implement the Federal Interagency
Policy, A Report by a Panel of the National Academy of Public
Administration for the
United States Department of the Interior (Dec. 2001).
Nongovernment Organizations
Defenders of Wildlife
Undercutting
National Forest Protections: How the Bush Administration Uses the
Judicial System to Weaken Environmental Laws
(Summer 2003)
Forest Trust
Modifying
Wildfire Behavior - The Effectiveness of Fuel Treatments Published
by the SW Research Center
(April 2003)
National Forest Protection Alliance and Greenpeace U.S.A.
Endangered
Forests, Endangered Freedoms Ame | 
