Hearing undercuts
agency remodeling
By CATHERINE SIEGNER
01 the Emerald
If testimony in Eugene Mon
day could decide the issue,
Pres Carter s plan to reor
ganize the U S Forest Service
and the Department of Interior
into a new Department of Na
turai Resources would be
scrapped
U S Rep Jim Weaver. D
Oregon. chairer of the Forest
Subcommittee of the House Ag
riculture Committee. and
Congressman Tony Coelho. D
Calit., conducted the hearing
before a small audience in
Harris Hall Testimony was also
given on H R 2799. which
would establish a salvage
timber set-aside program for
small logging companies, and
on herbicide use in the national
forest system Weaver has
already stated his opposition to
the Carter proposal. ' It seems
to me a case of reorganization
for reorganization sake." he
said Monday "I certainly know
from experience that making
something bigger and more
centralized does not neces
sarily make it more efficient '*
Carl Stoltenberg. dean of the
OSU Forestry School, said he
cannot see how the reor
ganization plan will result in
better management of natural
resources and reduction of red
tape, as the Carter administra
tion has claimed
"Personally. I do not see how
the red tape encountered in
working with the Forest Service
and BLM (the Bureau of Land
Management) would be
reduced by combining two
huge agencies into an even
larger monolith," he said
Stoltenberg said he would
have more confidence in the
plan's improving natural
resource management "if the
current administration had a
convincing track record of
seeking better management in
its other actions " He added
that an understanding of such
issues and efforts to resolve
them "have not been evident
characteristics of recent White
House policy "
Stanley R Christensen,
director of the National As
sociation of Conservation Dis
tricts, said the NACD opposes
the proposed reorganization
because the ' move would
weaken the natural resource
functions of the Department of
Agriculture
The Forest Service has a
proven track record in dealing
with people on the local level.'*
Christensen said He added that
the NACD favors a decen
tralized field-based organiza
tion to improve efficiency and
effectiveness
Speaking on the set-aside
legislation. Bob Lindsay, direc
tor of Industrial Relations for
the Associated Oregon Loggers
of Springfield, said his or
ganization has worked for years
to establish an effective salvage
sales program to benefit the
small logger and remove dead,
down and insect-infected
timber from the forests
Lindsay said the Forest Ser
vice and the Small Business
Administration have recently
made it possible for a one-year
trial period for a Special Sal
vage Timber Sales program
He said the program does not
take away a slice of the timber
pie upon which the mills
depend Rather, it is a program
designed to increase the supply
of raw material by harvesting
and utilizing the dead and dying
material that has been going to
waste in our forests "
Bonnie Hill of Alsea told
Weaver and Coelho of her
experiences with the U S En
vironmental Protection Agency
when she was trying to es
tablish a correlation between
herbicide spraying and high
miscarriage level in women liv
ing in the Alsea area
Hill s efforts were partially
responsible for the recent EPA
emergency ban on the use of
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ESCAPE manual funded
By BERNARD SCHWARTZ
Of the Emerald
The Incidental Fee Commit
tee decided to fund a contested
ESCAPE training manual Mon
day night after a lengthy and
often heated debate over
whether ESCAPE is a course or
a University program
"It Is a course," said IFC
member Dusty Rhodes, and
therefore the training manual Is
a text which ESCAPE tutors
should pay for themselves," he
added "In no other course on
this campus (do incidental fees)
subsidize texts "
ESCAPE (every student car
ing about personalized educa
tion) faculty advisor Judy
Sanders disagreed, calling ES
CAPE "a viable leadership
program" which develops a
curriculum and produces a
manual independent of the
faculty
If the IFC cut funds for the
ESCAPE manual, then mem
bers would have to buy them
from ESCAPE
Sanders said charging
money for the manual "would
bring it nearer a text" and de
stroy the whole involvement
philosophy of ESCAPE
IFC member Kevin Chambers
agreed with Sanders, calling
the ESCAPE program "a learn
ing arm of ASUO."
Rhodes countered, saying
"the manual is undoubtedly a
text because students involved
get academic credit" that they
don't get in other programs
The IFC endorsed its April 5
decision to allocate S3,331 to
ESCAPE, including about
$1,000 for the manual
In other business, the com
mittee unanimously negated its
April 9 decision, deciding to
fund high school recruitment
visits for the Asian American
Student Union, Panhellenic and
the Intrafraternity Council
The committee also voted 6-0
to increase the Forensics bud
get from $6,000 to $7,000 and
agreed by consensus to
allocate $10,135 to the Student
Bar Association and $3,470 to
the Chinese Student Union
IFC chairperson Janet
Eggleston was absent from
Monday's meeting
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