U.S. Forest Service"s timber sale program

U.S. Forest Service"s timber sale program by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Subcommittee. Download PDF EPUB FB2

The Forest Service sells timber and special forest products on a variety of contract and permit forms based on the complexity and/or value of the sale. Guidance for the use of these forms can be found in Forest Service Handbook (FSH)Chap Sections 53 and Permit form FS is used to collect fees and to authorize both.

The U.S. Forest Service Timber Sale Preparation Process (The Gate System) A Short Overview is a short narrated video presentation that introduces employees and partners to the Timber Sale gate process as outlined in Forest Service manual and Forest Service handbook The Forest Service stewards an impressive portfolio of landscapes across million acres of National Forests and Grasslands in the public trust.

The agency’s top priority is to maintain and improve the health, diversity, and productivity of the nation’s forests and grasslands to meet the needs of current and future generations. Forest.

GAO discussed the Forest Service's Timber Sale Program Information Reporting System (TSPIRS). GAO noted that: (1) TSPIRS reports the results of the year's timber harvest activities in terms of anticipated benefits from the harvest's net present values, a cost reporting module, and socio-economic benefits incurred from harvest-related jobs and income; (2) TSPIRS cost accounting covers growth.

Get this from a library. Review of the Forest Service's timber sale program, and the GAO financial audit of the Forest Service's financial statements: hearing before the Subcommittee on Forests, Family Farms, and Energy of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, Ap Get this from a library.

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Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. GAO discussed the Forest Service timber sales program, focusing on: (1) a regulation allowing for timber sales contract extensions in the event of drastic price reductions for wood products; and (2) the Service's efforts to reduce the program's costs.

GAO noted that: (1) the Service did not adequately evaluate the costs and benefits of allowing contract extensions; (2) the regulation is. Periodic Timber Sale Accomplishment Reports (PTSAR) Gopher Frog Sale, Longleaf Pine Ecosystem Restoration and Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project, Mississippi.

The PTSAR was developed to enable the Forest Service to track its progress in timber sale volume accomplishments in various categories. The responsible line officer for the timber sale shall certify on the certification report (generated by TIM), titled “Timber Sale Report,” that: “All attached documents and specifications for this timber sale have been completed in accordance with regulations at 36 CFR, PartSubpart B, and applicable Forest Service Manual and Handbook.

Howard, James L. U.S. timber production, trade, consumption, and price statistics to Research Paper FPL-RP Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory.

91 p. A limited number of free copies of this publication are available to the. On the pages linked below you will find out how DNR sells state trust land timber, and how we market timber and other forest products to earn income to build our public schools, universities, state mental hospitals and other institutions and to help fund local services in many counties.

These diverse forests across the state offer many ways to. The Timber Sale Program designates areas for commercial wood harvest, determines how much wood is available and the harvest method to be used, and marks trees to be cut.

Actual timber sales are. The Timber Management Field Book has been in use since the late 's and is a popular field tool for foresters to accomplish field work. It is used to access information on timber volumes, site indexes, surveying and cruising data, reforestation, scaling, and other silvicultural information while in the : Spiral-bound.

Lists of services are provided solely as a courtesy to landowners. The U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) makes no representation whatsoever as to the quality of work or business practices of the firms listed. The SRS strongly suggests that before entering into any transaction with an individual or a business, you ask for the.

U.S. Forest Service's timber sale program: hearing before the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, first session, Novem (Book, ) [] Get.

GAO reviewed the Forest Service's Timber Sale Program Information Reporting System (TSPIRS). GAO found that: (1) overall, the Service continued to make progress in testing and implementing TSPIRS; (2) TSPIRS accounting for road costs was consistent with the basic system design outlined in a GAO report and was appropriate for cost accounting purposes, but alternative methods existed; (3).

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Forest service programs resulting from the New England hurricane of Septem February Links contain timber sales, statewide, scheduled for that month's auction (s).

The packet for each sale contains pre-sales documents in PDF format prepared by DNR; each bidder must perform their own inspection and appraisal. January - Timber Sale Auction Packets and Auction Book. February - Timber Sale Auction Packets and Auction Book.

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Forest Service's development of a timber cost accounting system to: (1) evaluate whether system development activities were proceeding adequately; and (2) determine whether the system would be complete and allow for comparison of actual costs and found that, rather than develop a cost accounting system, the Service proposed a.

Timber sales on U.S. Forest Service lands feed 80% of the timber industry in the Black Hills, an industry that contributes around $ million annually to the local economy, supporting around.

To learn more about the Forest Service’s timber sale program, see “Ending Timber Sales on National Forests: The Facts” by the John Muir Project, a report which was reviewed and approved by the Congress Research Service, the non-partisan research arm of the U.S.

Congress. Although the Forest Service’s timber sale program is a net money. GAO reviewed the Forest Services total costs associated with its timber sales program for fiscal years and Serious accounting and financial reporting deficiencies at the Forest Service during fiscal years and precluded GAO from making an accurate determination of the total federal costs for the timber sales program.

These deficiencies made the Forest Service's cost.Agroforestry Agroforestry combines agriculture and forestry technologies to create more integrated, diverse, productive, profitable, healthy and sustainable land-use systems.

Practices are focused on meeting the economic, environmental and social needs of people on their private lands. The forestry profession encompasses the science and practice of establishing, managing, using, and conserving.