U.S. Forest Service Needs a New Mission, RFF Book Says

U.S. Newswire;  September 19, 2000 ;     649 words ......time in its 100-year history, the U.S. Forest Service is struggling to meet the many competing...grazing land under federal control -- the Forest Service has come under increasing pressure...The new book, A Vision for the U.S. Forest Service: Goals for the Next Century, includes...

MURKOWSKI QUESTIONS FOREST SERVICE ON RELEASE OF TIMBER; OVER GAO STUDY...

Capitol Hill Press Releases;  July 28, 1998 ;     700+ words ......283-4149; 0 224-2185 MURKOWSKI QUESTIONS FOREST SERVICE ON RELEASE OF TIMBER; OVER GAO STUDY...Frank Murkowski today pressed the Forest Service for answers why no steps have been...improperly spent from appropriations by The Forest Service in finishing and implementing last...

IMPROVEMENTS IN MANAGEMENT OF FOREST SERVICE:ERIC V. SCHLECHT

Congressional Testimony;  July 29, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Committee on Agriculture on H.R. 4149 The Forest Service Cost Reduction and Fiscal Accountability...voice our support for H.R. 4149, the Forest Service Reduction and Fiscal Accountability...mismanagement that currently exists within the Forest Service. For several years, the American ...

Forest Service Blamed for Deaths

AP Online;  February 9, 2002 ;     574 words ...00-00-0000 Dateline: YAKIMA, Wash. The Forest Service willfully disregarded employee safety...Administration said Friday. OSHA said the Forest Service did not provide a place of employment...serious harm or death. It noted, as the Forest Service had in its own investigation, that...

AGENCY NEGLECTED FIRE SAFETY RULES, OSHA SAYS FOREST SERVICE CRITICIZED...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  February 9, 2002 ;     662 words ......AND NEWS SERVICES YAKIMA -- The U.S. Forest Service willfully disregarded the safety of...Administration said yesterday. OSHA said the Forest Service did not provide a place of employment...unimpressed. One parent noted that the Forest Service reached many of the same conclusions...

Editorial -- It's Time Forest Service Realizes That Fatal Fire Is...

Yakima Herald-Republic;  May 22, 2002 ;     578 words ......institutional arrogance of the U.S. Forest Service continues to boggle the mind. The agency...national forests. It's bad enough that the Forest Service investigated itself as to what went...come 10 months after the tragedy. The Forest Service reportedly still employs the nine...

Forest Service to cut 35 Missoula jobs

Missoulian;  February 15, 2006 ;     529 words ...About 110 U.S. Forest Service jobs are leaving Montana, Idaho...multiyear reorganization of the Forest Service involving hundreds of positions...finance departments. A centralized Forest Service center in Albuquerque, N.M., will...

U.S. Forest Service Is Often Unable to Recoup Forest-Fire Costs.

The Denver Post (Denver, Colorado) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  November 10, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Byline: David Migoya Nov. 10--The U.S. Forest Service has been unable to collect millions...billed, according to records from the Forest Service's claims office in Ogden, Utah. The...expect from Terry Barton, the former Forest Service worker accused of setting this year...

The U.S. Forest Service: A History

Environmental History;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...The U.S. Forest Service: A History, centennial edition. By Harold K...published in 1976 and reissued in honor of the U.S. Forest Service's centennial, Harold K. Steen's The U.S. Forest Service: A History has long been a foundational work...

FOREST SERVICE'S FINANCIAL MISMANAGEMENT TO BE FOCUS OF JOINT...

Capitol Hill Press Releases;  March 25, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Hansen 202/225-2749 March 25, 1998 Forest Service's Financial Mismanagement To Be Focus...hearing on the management of the U.S. Forest Service and seek answers to a number of financial...Washington, DC) --Michael Dombeck, Forest Service Chief, Department of Agriculture (Washington...

Thirtymile Fire -- Cantwell Sees Smoldering Problems in Forest Service --...

Yakima Herald-Republic;  May 8, 2002 ;     700+ words ......this year. She doesn't believe the Forest Service has solved the problems that got four...in July. The hearing - focusing on Forest Service preparedness for the 2002 fire season...investigate firefighter deaths in the Forest Service. The new bill also would require the...

FISCAL 2008 BUDGET: U.S. FOREST SERVICE:ABIGAIL KIMBELL

Congressional Testimony;  February 28, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Statement of Abigail Kimbell Chief, Forest Service USDA Committee on Senate Energy...the President`s budget for the Forest Service in fiscal year 2008. Let me also say, having been Chief of the Forest Service for just a month, I am deeply...

Forest Service Cuts Other Programs to Fight Record Blazes.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......the federal budget, forcing the U.S. Forest Service to cannibalize funds from other programs...reach $1.5 billion by October, the Forest Service is holding up expenditures on campground...Torre, regional budget officer for the Forest Service in California. It also is prompting...

FOREST SERVICE ROADS:KELITA M. SVOBODA

Congressional Testimony;  March 4, 1999 ;     700+ words ......Motorcyclist Association Regarding the Forest Service Road Moratorium and Long Term Road...today, and to provide comments on the Forest Service's road moratorium and long-term road policy. The AMA is not opposed to the Forest Service taking a close look at roads on our...

Thirtymile Fire -- Forest Service Replies, Sort Of

Yakima Herald-Republic;  December 8, 2001 ;     585 words ...The U.S. Forest Service on Friday issued a belated response...The clearest statement from the Forest Service to Congress dealt with the inherent...Recognize firefighting is dangerous," Forest Service officials told the Senate in their...