On the recordOctober 21, 1997
Today, as the administration considers its position on global warming, though, the House will send a message to the White House that regardless of whether you believe that human-induced global climate change is occurring or not, our forests should play an integral part in reducing greenhouse gases. At the 11th World Forestry Congress taking place in Antalya, Turkey, many professional forest managers in other countries have criticized the Clinton administration for its lack of management of our national forests. This is very interesting to me, Madam Speaker, because they feel that we have great resources here in America and we are not using them. Instead, we are demanding that the wood that we export now from other countries be harvested in other countries putting an undue pressure on those countries to produce the wood. By not applying good silviculture treatments to our forests, we are creating burdens for the rest of the world.
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