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Show Sen. Moss Commends Senate for Forests Aid Bill Senator Frank E. Moss of Utah commended the action of the Senate Tuesday in voting an additional ad-ditional $17.5 million to implement imple-ment the program for National Forests recommended last year by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson. The Senate adopted the recom-mendtions recom-mendtions of its interior appropriations appro-priations subcommittee. In testimony testi-mony before the subcommittee, Sen. Moss had condemned the Eisenhower administration, saying say-ing that the President's budget requests "clearly failed to do the job" asked for in the Benson program. Purposes of the additions to the administration requests are as follows: "Over $12 million are for forest for-est land management, protection and utilization, including such functions as fire protection and range resource management, reforestation, re-forestation, wildlife management and mineral claims and leases, and structural improvements. "Another $2.5 million of the increase is to strengthen forest research programs into such matters as range management, forest protection and forest utilization. utili-zation. Over $4 million was vot ed for construction of research laboratories and other facilities. One million was voted to acquire ac-quire some privately owned forest for-est roads for proper access to national forest timber." Senator Moss concluded: "A sound program of investment invest-ment is necessary to provide the income from our timber and range resources, as well as recreational recre-ational facilities, needed by our west's expanding populations. A sound investment in our forests will reap actual monetary return and the expenditure will make money for the government. The Senate action reflects a very realistic view of our forest need. |