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- The overriding objective of the Forest Service's forest management program is
to ensure that the National Forests are managed in an ecologically sustainable
manner. The National Forests were originally envisioned as working forests with
multiple objectives: to improve and protect the forest, to secure favorable
watershed conditions, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use
of citizens of the United States. Forest management objectives have since
expanded and evolved to include ecological restoration and protection, research
and product development, fire hazard reduction, and the maintenance of healthy
forests. Guided by law, regulation, and agency policy, Forest Service forest
managers use timber sales, as well as other vegetation management techniques
such as prescribed fire, to achieve these objectives.
Website: "http://www.fs.fed.us/forestmanagement/index.shtml"
[Summary provided by the USDA Forest Service.]
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