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Show tiniiiiimmwmnimiwmiiiHiiinnim Western Resources WRAP-UP "'""""""""""""""IIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllNINIIlill Illlllllllllllllllllll Illlllllll!lll!lllli,;!, Forest Service Resource Planning Act draft By Helene C. Monberg, Vernal Express? Washington D.C. Correspondent Washington Demand will increase in-crease significantly for forest products prod-ucts and services on U.S. public and private lands in the next 50 years, particularly for recreational sites near large urban areas, minerals, and grazing, according to the U.S. Forest Service (USFS). The Forest Service came out on June 30 with its proposals to provide pro-vide direction for managing the National Forest System and its other oth-er programs during the next decade, as it is required to do under the 1974 Resources Planning Act (RPA; P.L. 93-378). It has printed up 12,500 copies of its draft 1990 RPA program and is distributing them now to its regional offices, to other federal offices, Congress, the states, environmental and forest-user groups and the press. USFS wants public comment on its draft RPA proposals during the next three months. For example, if you arc a rancher in Colorado and you want to put in your two cents on the Forest Service draft, you should get in touch with your cattlemen's cattle-men's association and your Forest Service regional office in Denver, Director Thomas J. Mills of the USFS US-FS RPA staff told Western Resources Wrap-up (WRW), USFS RPA briefings will be hclJ here for environmental and forest-user forest-user groups later this month, ami USPS workshops will be held here and in several of the USfS regional office! in September. The USi S regional re-gional offices arc Uxated in Denver, Albuquerque, San nandu-o; Pmlmd; Of kn, L'uh; Mivvouli, Juneau, AlxXi: Atlanta, huh coven Uc SiHVSutea txU:.r j OlWfcwna r-4 "km; s;.J M.Uaattf.fchuhepvm USI Sac. fcvi'.;ct W ir.ifch it CC y,U(4 art i-llVta-.t All f-4': tuHAfM m fcl'A r. -4 t km m 14 Cm I rc -i U r h c V 'a .'.--' t4U'tf rnfclr4 ti Un tf-in Oct J, Ibcy .:j t U cs Sff fra? iy fA r--i f l S m jv t:f;---'., -1 :.-8 ii J 4 W U'- f ' '"C- I 1 f ?.:d f Jr Is ? ! : i-V .tjf .( ;" J'.."' i Jr ! I'M '"1 : . t.i". i J,, ;,:;." ii m , ' w t-ni .!!.') ( -t- ; .'. I. i 'J ) ,-,4 !-:. i. ; i - tt t is ui w.J f !! Jl- 1, !. v -.1. ; i :- .1.. 1'! ..fst ' 1' :ii : 1 : i. (' i- 1 ! T T ' . " - : - and the Pacific Coast It assumes the economy will quadruple, and per capita purchasing power will more than double, from $10,620 in 1985 to $28,790 in year 2040. It assumes the average age of the U.S. population will continue to increase in-crease in future years; that technological techno-logical advances will continue to influence in-fluence substantially demands on natural resources in the future; that crude oil prices will increase 40 percent between the years 2000 and 2040, then level off at $50 per barrel bar-rel as conservation and use of substitute sub-stitute energy kick in; that red meat consumption will increase as the population increases but remain at 1 10 pounds per capita where it has stood in recent years (down from 133.3 pounds in 1976). The USFS assessment did not specifically include the warming trend believed to be occurring in the world nor the protracted battle over spotted owl habitat and cuts in old-growth old-growth timber in the Pacific Northwest, as the warming trend is n t yet proved, and the battle over sroitrd owl habitat is still being fougut 'n court and elsewhere. PROJECTIONS The USFS assessment projected the bifigcst increases in use of public pub-lic and private Linds in the next 50 years will eomc in outdoor recreation, recre-ation, especially w sites near lare urban centers, and in fish and MlJltfe activities. With the average American aging and more affluent, anj nh of the U.S. rx'rnilj;inft Ivmg in or near urban arm, USI S rrryeticJ nure Amrftfans in future cari dl Uit rmre but Hurler va-cj: va-cj: .'!! tl -cf W luime ty.ci tf.il eu-M,-J Itr-g 4a--U"WC Jta:ui ty Car. "I'KmiJj'.i rvfr:iti rfl-asi Ui tl-4 14 j-j-J4ui cr: : a .: tcir.e fri.uh r JC ir-JUM t C t fi'-Aj if ; vV-' .1 nr.;; t J t ' .',". tuu-4 at V1 $ pv UhU ir nJfe 13 t...s. c.ij Jsr-: ii vi. t . 'T CS Of k'f'ar4 n1 r. tt: -1 1 f - 1 t ' is ." 4 :.' ) ,( fit ;,;; 4 . jr -. ,.! It f ;-j tj J -v i1' r t J if Lit..:. "f - . .- Tfl (t, ;',( I' H ,; J 1 ;li "i - : -It .1 1 1 4Q95 . ..... T T- j , 1 crease, it said. Private lands are becoming be-coming less accessible for recre-ationists, recre-ationists, largely due to Lability of private land owners. "Only 21 percent per-cent of private lands are now available avail-able for free use," USFS found. USFS projected demands for "non-consumptive use of wildlife," such as photography, watching birds and other wildlife in their habitat, will increase markedly in the next 50 years, along with fishing and nugatory nu-gatory bird hunting. Other types of hunting are expected to decline slowly over the same period, as access ac-cess to private lands for hunting becomes be-comes more restricted, increasing pressures on public lands. Total demand in the next 50 years for hardwood and softwood timber is expected to "increase significantly" significant-ly" especially for fiber-based products, prod-ucts, such as pulp and structure panels, pan-els, USFS projected. "Harvest will increase, but real timber prices will be higher," it said. It projected total timberland area will decrease by four percent by year 2040: It held out the hope that private land owners, own-ers, who control nearly 75 jxircent of all umbcrland in this country, will harvest more of their timber. Mills said the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in the 1985 Farm Act (P.L. 99-198) was putting 300,000 acres of marginal farm land into trees annually on an average, but he said CRP is likely to sunset, perhaps as early as 1990. With timber prices projected to rise and the possibility that private land owners might get government assistance assis-tance to encourage them to harvest their timber, this source should take care of higher timber demand on a regular, sustainable basis, Mills said at the press briefing. There will be increased demand for water quality in the next 50 years thruout the country, as water quality is becoming "a bigger issue," is-sue," USFS said. "About 80 percent of the nation's flowing waters have some problems w ith water quality, fish habitat or fish numbers anJ species ai a result of industrial, agricultural, agri-cultural, forestry and other human activities" it said. In adJstion, it noted, wetlands have lined significantly" sig-nificantly" and are continuing w decline de-cline at the rate cf .D.tnO acres ar.fiuJly. dac la vtUrt a-. J n.burl ii ;?al and aruulurjl us-es. us-es. Tkrc m ca-.fy 90 mX.m acres fcf ct!ar.d tit t?C Ci-.!:Oinj t'r- tcd Su:; I Vy, : Can Kif tf-c fcife ita tiv.ui 2iX) year SM, 151 S J r;rd f-aruw-V'ly bS m tf-e l?tv tv.Kt a usj i i-i n t'i fe'i, fc-'f l'!'- 4 tt IV U-a 4..J tv-f t- n-ii V.Vvi At iVL. Vtf : ) vt r.a.'S r ..". ti 4 i-:s m " ; j4 -;:, -.5 i : l f" -,-.- i f f-i rf i..- - n .. ..;." i'. 4 4.V- 4 .-. awf r t, ;:.r:j -j :,,: f; ... i j f-.'iil, 1:;: r i' . s-fl if ji- ;r. 1 '- !' f .'I J-.;.i- M "'I 'i 1." 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