Proposed Regulations by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to Establish Prohibitions and Restrictions Concerning Imported Nonmanufactured Wood Articles: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Natural Resources of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, June 29, 1994U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995 - 148 pages Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche. |
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Page 148 - ... necessary and useful in the determination of ways and means needed to balance the demand for and supply of these renewable resources, benefits and uses in meeting the needs of the people of the United States.
Page 148 - ... insects and diseases affecting trees occur and sometimes create emergency conditions on all land, whether Federal or nonFederal, and efforts to prevent and control such insects and diseases often require coordinated action by both Federal and non-Federal land managers ; (5...
Page 5 - STATEMENT OF HON. PETER A. DeFAZIO, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF OREGON Mr. DEFAZIO. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Page 142 - Industries associated with hiking, hunting, fishing, and other outdoor activities can be seriously affected if the forest is no longer suitable for a particular recreational activity. The ecological cost, in terms of an altered forest ecosystem, cannot be adequately measured. According to Ledig (1992), Introduction of exotic diseases, insects, mammalian herbivores, and competing vegetation has had the best-documented effects on genetic diversity [of forest ecosystems], reducing both species diversity...
Page 48 - The US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS...
Page 8 - DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR, PLANT PROTECTION AND QUARANTINE, ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE FJ FULLERTON, DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR, MEAT AND POULTRY INSPECTION, FIELD OPERATIONS, ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE DONALD L.
Page 148 - ... and determination and organization of control methods. Programs on non-federal lands can be instituted only with the consent of, and with a contribution of resources from, the owner. The Secretary may also prescribe other conditions for such cooperative efforts. Executive Order 11987 (1977) directs federal agencies to restrict the introduction of exotic species into natural ecosystems under their jurisdiction and to encourage states to do the same; directs the Secretaries of Interior and Agriculture...
Page 129 - The company manufactures and distributes paper and paper products, office products, and building products and owns and manages timberland to support these operations. Boise Cascade is one of the largest pulp and paper producers in the United States.
Page 9 - This type of biological warfare is one of the techniques of the US Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) at Hyattsville, Maryland.
Page 148 - ... availability of adequate data and scientific information for development of the periodic Renewable Resource Assessment provided for in section 3 of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974, the Secretary of Agriculture shall make and keep current a comprehensive survey and analysis of the present and prospective conditions of and requirements for renewable resources of the forests and rangelands of the United States and of the supplies of such renewable resources, including...