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How to Improve U.S. Forest Service Reports on Forest Resources.
PAD-77-29; B-125053. February 23, 1977. Released March 7, 1977.
5 pp. + appendix (2 pp.).
Report to Sen. Herman E. Talmadge, Chairman, Senate Committee on
Agriculture and Forestry; by Elmer B. Staats, Ccptroller
General.
Issue Area: Land Use Planning and Control (2300); Land Use
Planning and Control: utilization of the Public Lands
Resource (2304);Materials: Federal Role as a Proprietor of
Raw materials Resources on Public Lands (1802).
Contact: Program Analysis Div.
Budget Function: Agriculture (350); Agriculture: Agrivultural
Research and Services (352); Natural Resources, Environment,
and Energy: Conservation and Land MaDagement (302).
Organization Concerned: Department of Agriculture; Forest
Service.
Congressional Relevance: Senate Committee on Agriculture and
Forestry.
Authority: Forest and Rangeland Renewablf Resources Planning Act
(P. L. 93-378).
The Forest Services Renewable Resource Assessment is
designed to inventory renewable forest and range resources and
to analyze the supply and demand for them. The Renewatle
Resource Program is designed for management of these resources.
Findings/conclusions: The 1975 Assessment and Program documents
were hard to read; the writing style was vertose, and statistics
were not documented. major issues were not discussed separately
from the systems format. The major analytical issue in the
Assessment was the quality of the forecasts. The Assessment and
Program presented the results of some type of economic analysis,
but they contained few regional disaggregaticns for information
presentation, supply and demand projections, or analysis.
Greater analysis of issues involving the relationship between
the public and private sector is needed. Recommendations:
Improvements in the Assessment should involve: better estimates
of the value of recreation, better analysis of the value cf
Forest Service programs to the public, analysis cf effects of
public policy on the private timber industry, and analysis of
why proposed expenditures are necessary. (RRS)](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobaabst0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)