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That may sound reasonable, but it represents a dramatic reversal for an agency that has been so closely aligned with industry that it was known for years as the "U.S. Timber Service." The Clinton Administration, determined that the service turn over a new leaf, appointed Dombeck in 1997. Now he is the point man for a set of contentious land-management issues that will only get hotter as the 2000 presidential election--and the environmentalist candidacy of Al Gore--gets closer...
...agency he took over was torn by conflicting loyalties, financially dependent on timber sales and tied up in lawsuits charging it with skirting wilderness and endangered-species regulations--charges that the Agriculture Department's inspector general appeared to validate last week. In a scorching review of Forest Service policy, investigators found loopholes in hundreds of environmental-impact assessments written to support timber sales...
Dombeck has tried to cut a new path for the embattled agency. He forced out managers too closely allied with logging interests and began to wean the agency of its dependence on timber receipts. He reordered employee evaluations, putting greater emphasis on how staff members protected water and soil than on how much revenue they produced...
PROTECTING THE FORESTS Your article on the need to preserve the world's wooded areas [HEROES FOR THE PLANET: FORESTS, Dec. 14] justifiably charged timber interests, population growth and suburban sprawl with reckless forest destruction. However, you should have included the illegal drug trade as one of the culprits. For years drug cultivators have claimed hundreds of thousands of acres of forest. Environmental organizations should adopt rigorous antidrug policies that compel government accountability and stem lethal drug cultivation. F. ANDY MESSING JR. Executive Director National Defense Council Foundation Alexandria...
...with the President on Wednesday, he gave him a gift, a new biography of Isaiah Berlin, the late political thinker who taught at Oxford University when Clinton studied there in the late '60s. One of Berlin's favorite epigrams was from the philosopher Immanuel Kant: "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can be made." He was right...