Salvage Timber And Forest Health Oversight Hearings Before The Task Force On Salvage Timber And Forest Health Of The Committee On Resources House Of

Author : United States Committee on Resources
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334040665
Total Pages : 402 pages
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Download or read book Salvage Timber and Forest Health, Vol. 2 written by United States Committee on Resources and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-23 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Salvage Timber and Forest Health, Vol. 2: Oversight Hearings Before the Task Force on Salvage Timber and Forest Health of the Committee on Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress; October 24, 1995 Washington, DC; November 4, 1995 Medford, Or Mr. Johnson. Well, as I stated in my testimony, the people on the ground would be willing to go out and earnestly and honestly put that stuff up for sale and try to get it off the ground as soon as they possibly can. But they are having all kinds of problems from the groups here in Washington that say, no, we got to study this, and we got to study that, and on and on and on and on. It is just a stall. In the meantime, that material is deteriorating pret ty rapidly. Mr. Metcalf. Ok. That has been my Opinion, and I just wanted to hear you say it. If you wanted to prevent a timber salvage Oper ation, do you think requiring helicopter logging would probably be a pretty good way to prevent it? Mr. Johnson. Well, I think the helicopter can be used in some places, but it is so expensive. You are talking about just the heli copter logging cost itself is a lot of times more expensive than you can afford to buy the log for. So, therefore, you know, if you can't afford it, you are not going to buy it. There are other methods much cheaper than the helicopter that, as I indicated a while ago, has already been used on that particular land site in some cases. Mr. Metcalf. Well, I have been talking and heard from some union members relative to this, and they are very unhappy with what they believe the Forest Service is purposely screwing it up to prevent this from happening and to prevent the jobs and so forth. What does the Forest Service tell you about why they have not re leased more sales and so forth? DO they make any excuses for this? Mr. Johnson. Well, they are all waiting for a direction from Washington. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.