Forest Service Management: Issues To Be Considered in Developing a New
Stewardship Strategy (Testimony, 02/01/94, GAO/T-RCED-94-116).

Budgetary constraints and scientific findings on ecosystem management
will challenge the Forest Service as never before to find new ways to
achieve program goals with fewer resources.  GAO testified that the
Forest Service needs to work closely with Congress to get a better
return on the sale or use of natural resources on public lands.  It also
needs to work with Congress and other federal land management agencies
to find ways to work more efficiently and to manage federal lands so as
to preserve the nation's natural resources and sustain their long-term
economic productivity.  GAO believes that a coordinated interagency
strategy may be needed to link Forest Service reforms to changes being
considered by other federal land management agencies.  The goal would be
to coordinate and integrate these programs, activities, and functions so
that these agencies can function as a unit on the local level.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-RCED-94-116
     TITLE:  Forest Service Management: Issues To Be Considered in 
             Developing a New Stewardship Strategy
      DATE:  02/01/94
   SUBJECT:  Forest management
             Interagency relations
             Public lands
             Renewable natural resources
             Land management
             Federal property management
             Federal agency reorganization
             Timber sales
             Use taxes
             National forests

             
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