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1 CIS S 7216
TITLE: U.S.
Forest Service: Taking a Chain Saw to Small Business
CIS-NO: 2001-S721-6
SOURCE: Committee on Small Business.
Senate
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DOC-NO: S. Hrg. 106-785
DATE: Oct. 4, 2000
LENGTH: iv+250 p. il.
CONG-SESS:
106-2
ITEM-NO: 1049-J; 1049-K
SUDOC:
Y4.SM1/2:S.HRG.106-785
CIS DOCUMENT ON DEMAND: 1-800-227-2477 (Full
Text Reproductions)
GPO-STOCK-NO: 552-070-26829-4.
SUMMARY:
Hearing to examine the impact of
Forest Service policies on rural small businesses.
Focuses on concerns that proposed national forest and road
management rules may reduce availability of timber, reduce number of grazing
permits, and reduce recreation access.
Supplementary material (p.
11-19, 209-250) includes correspondence, submitted statements, and a report.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Forest Service
policies, rural small businesses impact
DESCRIPTORS:
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND PROCEDURE; RURAL
CONDITIONS; OUTDOOR RECREATION; LUMBER AND LUMBER INDUSTRY; RANCHES AND
RANCHERS; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION; FOREST SERVICE; SMALL
BUSINESS
01-S721-6 TESTIMONY NO: 1 Oct. 4, 2000 p.
24-28
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
THOMAS, CRAIG (Sen, R-Wyo)
CRAIG,
LARRY E. (Sen, R-Idaho)
STATEMENTS:
Concerns about Forest Service policies
impact on rural small businesses.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Forest Service policies, rural small
businesses impact
01-S721-6 TESTIMONY NO: 2
Oct. 4, 2000 p. 28-181
WITNESSES (and witness
notations):
HURST, JIM (President, Owens & Hurst
Lumber Co)
BOUSMAN, JOEL E. (rancher)
TINSLEY, DEL (Publisher, Wyoming Livestock Roundup)
BUKOWSKY, AL (Owner and Operator, Solitude River Trips)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Criticism of
Forest Service policies, citing negative impact on rural small
businesses; concerns of ranchers and outfitters about Forest
Service policies.
INSERTION:
-- Coulter,
Richard (et al., Wyo Agric Statistics Service), "Wyoming Agricultural Statistics
2000" with tables and graphs (p. 58-158).
CONTENT NOTATION:
Forest Service policies, rural small
businesses impact
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
WYOMING AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE; WYOMING;
STATISTICAL DATA: AGRICULTURE; STATISTICAL DATA: INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE
01-S721-6 TESTIMONY NO: 3 Oct. 4,
2000 p. 182-200
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
VAN TASSELL, LARRY W. (Head, Department of Agricultural
Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Idaho)
MCKILLOP, WILLIAM (Professor Emeritus, College of Natural
Resources, University of California, Berkeley)
STATEMENTS AND
DISCUSSION:
Summary of research findings on impact of
Forest Service policies on rural small businesses, including
ranching (related bibl, p. 189).
CONTENT NOTATION:
Forest Service policies, rural small
businesses impact
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
BIBLIOGRAPHIES; RESEARCH
01-S721-6 TESTIMONY NO: 4 Oct. 4, 2000 p. 201-208
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
FURNISH,
JAMES R. (Deputy Chief, National Forest System,
Forest Service)
STATEMENT:
Response to criticism of Forest Service
policies.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Forest Service policies, rural small
businesses impact
LOAD-DATE: August 2, 2001
