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Show Oualilty Resource Management Efforts Expained by F .S. Announcement was made today by Vern Hamre, Regional Forester Fores-ter for the Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain Region of the Forest Service, that action is being taken to try to maintain quality resource re-source management within the current budget. "New legislation resulting re-sulting from growing environmental concern requires increased planning and interdisciplinary interdisci-plinary studies to improve im-prove the quality of National Na-tional Forest management. manage-ment. At the same time, forest use has increased. increas-ed. While our budgets have remained fairly-constant, fairly-constant, the cost of doing do-ing business has gone higher." Mr. Hamre explained that it is necessary to reduce overhead staffing as one action to cut costs. In line with this action, a significant reduction re-duction will be made in Ogden Regional Office personnel. A study is now underway on the consolidation of some National Forest Supervisors' Super-visors' Offices. Staffing reductions will be attained at-tained primarily through normal attrition over the next several months. -"During the last two years the number of Ranger Ran-ger Districts in the In-termountain In-termountain Region has been reduced from 120 to 94 through consolidation," consolida-tion," said Mr. Hamre. "We have moved in this direction in order to improve im-prove resource management manage-ment effectiveness and efficiency. Larger Ranger Ran-ger Districts require a lesser proportion of staffing to perform the. overhead and management manage-ment functions." Studies of Forest consolidations con-solidations and reduction reduc-tion in Ogden Regional Office staffing are aimed aim-ed at getting more dollars dol-lars and personnel for on - the - ground work, such as campground maintenance and cleanup, clean-up, winter sports administration, ad-ministration, timber sales, livestock range management, water shed improvement, and wildlife wild-life management. |
