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Show Sen. Moss Asks For Russ Forestry Report Senator Frank E. Moss of Utah said that Secretary of Agriculture Agricul-ture Ezra Taft Benson was being be-ing asked to supply the U. S. Senate with a report on forestry progress in the Soviet Union. Senator Moss, who visited the USSR last fall on a survey of power and water resource development, de-velopment, said that what he saw of the Russian forestry program pro-gram was most impressive. Senator James E. Murray of Montana, chairman of the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular In-sular Affairs, at the request of Senator Moss officially asked Secretary Benson to prepare the forestry report which Senator Murray offered to print in conformity con-formity with Senate Resolution 248. Senator Moss is a member of the Interior Committee. Senator Moss said: "It has come to my attention that a 7-man 7-man United States team made a study of Russian forestry last summer. The Interior Committee Commit-tee now has before it the Resource Re-source and Conservation act that proposes to set up a means of obtaining the most comprehensive comprehen-sive surveys and recommendations recommenda-tions the U.S. has ever been able to obtain on overall conservation of our resources. I believe our consideration of the bill will be greatly aided by the report on Russian forestry resources and manaeement." If the report is filed, it will become a Senate document, as did the report of the subcommittee subcommit-tee headed by Senator Moss in the USSR and the USA. In making his request to Sen. Murray, Sen. Moss stressed the relationship between water resource re-source development and forestry management. "We must exert every reasonable reason-able effort to apply our energies to sound resource development. From what I have seen of the Russian water power program, and what we all know they are doing in the space and missile field, it is apparent that we must put hard and dedicated work above an economy geared principally prin-cipally to luxury production," Sen. Moss said. |