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...testimony and letters.After a thorough evaluation, CACFA reached the same conclusion that U.S. Department of Agriculture Undersecretary Harris Sherman made during the Senate hearing on S. 730: "The selections identified by Sealaska within the...
...parts of Alaska's Tongass National Forest. "Our intention is ... to let the interim directive expire," Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey said Wednesday. Environmentalists said the decision strengthens the rule put in place during the...
...conservation. The settlement calls for a proposed temporary regulation to exempt the Tongass from the roadless rule, Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey said Monday from Washington, D.C. The agency will take public comment on the proposal, and will...
...highest levels of the U.S. Forest Service. The agency chief, Dale Bosworth, and Mark Rey, Department of Agriculture undersecretary for natural resources and the environment, both attended the first meeting. Rey said he and Bosworth just...
...in Anchorage, did not rule Wednesday and took the issue under advisement. The original decision by then-Agriculture Undersecretary Jim Lyons to protect more areas of the Tongass and species such as the Sitka black-tailed deer and the Alexander...
...sales will be proposed again in the future remains unknown, she said. On Aug. 7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Undersecretary of Natural Resources and the Environment Mark Rey sent a letter backing off the land sales - at least for a...
...000-acre change was to multiple use areas, some that would allow occasional logging. This change, made by Agriculture Undersecretary Jim Lyons, cannot be appealed and is yet another affront to a region that has had its fair share of unfair...
...equitable that the federal government contributes its fair share to Alaska communities for the lands it owns.." Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey, who directs U.S. forest policy, praised the Senate action but said the Bush administration had...
...this budget casts a long shadow in favor of working lands conservation and environmental protection," said Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey, who oversees forestry and natural resources. Environmentalists and some Democrats disagreed. They...
...entities that report to local trusts for oversight, rather than to the U.S. Forest Service. Mark Rey, the agriculture undersecretary who oversees the Forest Service, said he wants to use one or two national forests as case studies to see if...