Eco-Watch Dialogues
10/15/99
National Forest Management Act Regulation Revision
On September 8, 1997 the Secretary of Agriculture commissioned a Committee of
Scientists to provide background for a rewrite of the regulation for implementing the
National Forest Management Act of 1976.
The Committee of Scientists reported out to the Secretary on March 15, 1999 in a publication titled Sustaining the People's Lands: Recommendations for Stewardship of the National Forests and Grasslands into the Next Century.
If you want to look at Committee of Scientists' draft reports, meeting notes, etc. visit
their home page. Or you might
want to visit thier discussion forum at discussion forum
, where interested stakeholders
commented on their deliberatons.
During the summer of 1998 a group of Forest Service employees was selected to rewrite the
NFMA regulation. This effort culminated in the Proposed Rule for NFMA, published in the Federal Register on Oct 5, 1999.
Please join our conversation as we learn
more--from each other--about the finer points of collaborative stewardship in the context of the NFMA.
Inquiry Questions: (to be developed)
- Older Forest Planning was based on Maximizing Net Public Benefits within the context of
law and policy. What will be the new "guiding force" for planning?
- If the Forest Service's GPRA strategic plan is to be an umbrella over all plans, what will
the Forest Service be held accountable for in the forest plans?
- How will the F.S.Natural Resource Agenda fit into multi-scale forest planning?
- How will Clean Water Action Plan assessments and other assessments link to planning?
- Will forest plans become subsumed into multi-county/state/all federal agency land and resource
planning?
Related sites:
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