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Show Land Policies Of Forest Service Subject To Review A forward step in U. S. Forest Service range administration was taken this week with the announcement an-nouncement that a three-member Board of Review is now established es-tablished to advise the secretary of agriculture on problems arising aris-ing from public use of national forest lands. Members appointed will meet at the call of the secretary and include three outstanding personages: per-sonages: Dr. Roland Roger Renne, president of Montana State College, Bozeman; Prof. Gilmour B. MacDonald, head of the department of forestry, Iowa State College, Ames; Dr. Jonathan Jona-than Forman, Columbus, Ohio. ,, Men named to this board are prohibited from having any financial fi-nancial interest in the use of forest lands. They were selected on the basis of personal competence com-petence and "not as representative representa-tive of any group or organization interested in the use of national forest land," according to the announcement from the Department Depart-ment of Agriculture. The setting up of the national forest Board of Review is an outgrowth of a proposal made by the House Public Lands Committee Com-mittee last October, following a series of public hearings in the West. Functions of the board, which is purely advisory in status, will include disposition of appeals to the secretary of agriculture ag-riculture by forest users and consideration con-sideration of important matters of policy. |