SUBCOMMITTEE ON FORESTS AND FOREST HEALTH  
1324 Longworth House Office Building
Thursday, November 10, 2005
9:30 a.m.

LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON: 

• H.R. 4200, (Walden), To improve the ability of the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to promptly implement recovery treatments in response to catastrophic events affecting Federal lands under their jurisdiction, including the removal of dead and damaged trees and the implementation of reforestation treatments, to support the recovery of non-Federal lands damaged by catastrophic events, to revitalize Forest Service experimental forests, and for other purposes. "Forest Emergency Recovery and Research Act"

WITNESSES & TESTIMONY:

Panel I

Dale Bosworth
Chief
USDA
Forest Service

Lynn Scarlett
Assistant Secretary
Policy, Management, and Budget
U.S. Department of the Interior

Panel II

Hal Salwasser
Dean of the College of Forestry
Oregon State University

Denny Scott
Assistant Organizing Director
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America

Peter F. Kolb
MSU Extension Forestry
Montana State University

Panel III

Jerry Franklin (Attachment)
College of Forest Resources
University of Washington

Stanford M. Adams
North Carolina Division of Forest Resources

Eric Holst
Director, Pacific Coast Program
Forest Guild

Sue Kupillas
Executive Director
Communities for Health Forests