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Show Sunday, March 5, 2006 DAILY HERALD Bush administration land sale plan tilted in favor of Northwest Matthew Daly million, with Oregon alone receiving nearly $162 million. bout 80,000 acres in Cali- WASHINGTON — A Bush administration plan to sell more - neiacres ofnational forest to pay for rural schools contains a disproportionate amountof land in the South and Midwest — while primarily benefiting schools in three West Coast states, a new analysis shows. Nearly 60,000 acres in 13 Southernstates and another 50,000 acres in 10 Midwestern States would be sold under the plan, while just 18,000 acres in forest-rich Oregon and Wash- ington would be sold, according to an analysis by the Southern Environmental Law Center. Southern states received $37 million for rural schools this year under the program the sales are intended to benefit; while the Midwest received $41 million, the analysis shows. Oregon and Washingtongotfive times those amounts — $210 fornia would be sold;the state received nearly $69 million from the Forest Service this year. David Carr, public lands director for the nonprofit lawcenter, called the regional disparity un- Under the Bush plan, 21,566 acres in Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest would be sald, with proceeds going to a general fund. The sell-off would be one of the biggest in the couna while Missouri's share of to the public-land base in the South, not holding a bake sale on bits andpieces of our limited national forests for.short-term budget needs.” Sen.Jim Talent, R-Mo., also questioned the proposal, saying there was no guarantee that money generated bythe sales would stay within Missouri. “Weneed to see moreofthe benefit of this proposal than we are now seeing,” Talent told Bush administrationofficials at a Senatehearing last week. Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, one of the chief architects of the ru- chairman of the Senate Energy “I. don't wantto pit your beautiful forest against school stability in Missouri,” Wyden, a ral schools law, called questions raised by Talent and Domenici Rey said, although Congress could adjust the funding forlegitimate, and said they were a mula as it sees fit. . key reason he opposes the land Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., plan. and Natural Resources Com- fair, and said the land sale would Set a dangerous precedent. “Selling off America’s natural heritageis not the way to fund governmentservices,” Carr said. “Weneed to be adding Service needs, Rey said. “They are not evenly distributed” throughout the country, mittee, said he wanted to “keep an open mind”on the landsale Democrat. told Talent at a Resources meeting last week. idea. But he asked, “Why sell the disparity, but said the law was devised to help ow rural counties hurt backson federal lands. a proposed for sale areisolated, difficult or expensive to manage, or no longer meet Forest most ofthe lands in those states that don’t get much money from these payments and very little land in the states that get the most money?” About 8,000 acres would be sold in New Mexico, which received just $2.3 million under About 10,500 acres in Oregon would be sold under the Bush the rural schools law because it was hurt the most by federal policies that restricted logging in the 1990s. Otherstates “aren't halfowned bythe federal government, and theydidn't see a 95 percent harvest reduction on federal lands,” as happened in Oregon and Washington,said Rep. Peter DeFazio; D-Ore. the Farm is! 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