Show fOREST USERS ASKED TO RID AID GOVERNMENT s Forest Service Seeks Advice of Majority of its Us Patrons 1 Washington July 21 To To give ghe sett- sett 11 r lore lets and other local users a larger r voice voicA in national forest administration tion S Secretary of Agriculture Hous- Hous r f J ton h has just promulgated a new Dew regulation regu lation which goes goe into effect at once providing a means by which the forest forest forest for- for j est service may systematically cooperate coop- coop crate erato with duly organized a associations f of such users 1 Any association whose members In In- a elude a majority of the thu local resi- resi rest rest- Ji I dents making use of the national foreste for for- v eats este may get together and select a a f committee to meet with the local forest o officers This committee will willbe he be recognized in an advisory capacity In settling questions which may ay arise t 1 between the forest service and the public in n the use of the forests j. j 1 The exact wording of the re regulation regulation regula regula- ula- ula tion is Whenever any association whose membership includes a II majority majority- J L of the local residents using a II National Nat Nat- j f tonal ional Forest or portion thereof thereof for like purposes shall select a committee an au a agreement nt on the the- part of which shall ll be binding upon upon upon up- up on the association such commit commit- committee tee upon application to the District Dist Dist- r I riot Forester may be recognized d' d din in an au advisory capacity on behalf of the association and shall be entitled to receive notice of proposed proposed pro pro- posed action and have an i to be heard by the the local Forest officer in iu reference to an any r 55 proposed changes likely to materially materially mater- mater affect the use or Interest in inthe rj j the Forest or portion thereof enjoyed en en- 4 joyed by such The Thu general principles of recognition and responsibility governing cooperation cooperation co- co co- co i operation with live stock als associations cl- cl are herewith extended so so v far as they are applicable to the theother other r regular gular lines of business conducted conducted con- con ducted on the National Forests The object of this regulation is 18 to extend what may be called home participation participation par par- i in national forest manage- manage 1 meat ment It is recognized that the best beat use of the forests in the interest of the general welfare means the promotion promotion promotion pro- pro 1 1 motion of local welfare and that the forests foreste must be handled with careful consideration for all local interests in in- It is recognized also that public confidence in the spirit of fairness fairness fairness fair- fair ness with which individual citizens are treated is essential and that local participation in inthe the the settlement ot or I many questions is the best possible safeguard against arbitrary or unwise decisions by local forest officers In other words it is desired to prevent prevent prevent pre pre- vent any local feeling that a II western user in contact with the national forest for est eat administrative system is up upa a against a far-away far bureau at Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington represented on the tho ground by bya a forest officer who can do as he hov he I chooses chos s and against whose actions it Continued on Page 4 I Ii i |