Charles Taylor: “I appreciate the statements of the gentleman from Oregon about the forest salvage bill. It will come up as an amendment…”

“I appreciate the statements of the gentleman from Oregon about the forest salvage bill. It will come up as an amendment on Thursday to the emergency supplemental and rescission package that will be before the House, and the comments the gentleman just made from Oregon are very timely, and I think the whole Nation is beginning to realize that we have in many respects mismanaged our resources over the years. The question has come up about the Forest Service management of property many times on this floor, and I am not here to defend the Forest Service categorically. I am one who believes that the Government generally will mess up a one-car funeral, and consequently most Government agencies are certainly not perfect. But the Forest Service has a history in the main of taking a nation at the beginning of this century where we had ravaged many of our forests and turned those forests into productive forests to the point that we are growing far more timber today than we are cutting.”