Political Quotes

“I rise today to echo the words of Senator Bumpers regarding national forest policy and to welcome Mike Dombeck as Chief of the U.S. Forest Service. The Forest Service is one of the oldest and one of the largest stewards of our public lands. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Organic Act in which Congress laid out the purposes for our national forests. Since the Forest Service was created in 1905, it has grown to manage over 190 million acres of forest lands. These lands span the entire United States, ranging from the small national forests of the East to the multimillion-acre forests of the West. The mission of the Forest Service is to manage all of these forests under the principles of multiple use and sustained yield. As Gifford Pinchot, the first Forest Service Chief, declared in 1905, the role of the Forest Service was to achieve 'the greatest good for the greatest number in the long run.' This mandate still stands today and should guide us into the next century of national forest management.”