Lawmakers Suggest Legislation Needed To Overcome Barriers to Forest Management

摘要

Members of Congress used a May 21 hearing on "The Future of the Forest Economy" to express their frustration over litigation that has blocked timber cutting in national forests and to suggest that legislation may be needed to allow a pilot forest management program to move forward.rnThe lawmakers also wrestled with the recurrent issue of Congress prohibiting the treatment of trees from national forests as biomass fuel in legislation on renewable energy.