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EMD-82-99 1 (1982-08-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabmnm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 ENERGY AND MINERALS DIVISION B-125053 AUGUST 18,1982 The Honorable John R. Block The Secretary of Agriculture Dear Mr. Secretary: 119246 Subject: Problems and Progress During Current Forest Service Planning (GAO/EMD-82-99) On December 12, 1978, we issued a report l/ to the Congress critiquing 11 studies dealing with various aspects of a projected timber shortage in the Pacific Northwest and its effects on our national forests. The 11 studies generally concluded that the continued use of the non-declining even-flow 2/ timber harvesting policy would likely lead to a sizeable drop in available timber in the years just ahead, especially in the Pacific Northwest. Consequently, we recommended that your U.S. Forest Service (FS) evaluate alternative harvest and timber management policies in terms of potential for increasing timber production with respect to the projected shortage. In addition, we requested the FS to examine the effects alternative timber harvesting policies might have on enhancing the non-timber uses of the national forests, such as recreation, wilderness, and fish and wildlife. The FS responded to our report in March 1979, agreeing that a reexamination was needed and initially identified 12 western forests in which to study the feasibility of timber harvesting alternatives. Since then the FS has broadened its l/Projected Timber Scarcities in the Pacific Northwest: A Critique of 11 Studies, December 12, 1978, (EMD-79-5). 2/The policy of non-declining even-flow timber harvesting is required by P.L. 94-588 which limits the sale of timber from each national forest to an amount equal to or less than a quantity which can be removed annually in perpetuity on a sustained-yield basis. The policy permits the Secretary of Agriculture to establish an allow- able sale quantity for any decade which departs from the project- ed long-term sale quantity. Any alternative timber harvesting policy that departs from the statutorily stated non-declining even- flow policy may require legislative action. (008469) J

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