Press Releases

Oregon Congressman Bob Smith, Chairman of the House Committe on Agriculture, today asked Secrataries Dan Glickman (Agriculture) and Bruce Babbitt (Interior), as well as Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck, to set the record straight, as a new study shows that the forest service's draft RPA vastly overestimates the value of recreation and that timber management actually contributes the greatest amoun... Read more »

Oregon Congressman Bob Smith, Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, today announced a diverse group of witnesses who will testify at the committee's upcoming hearing on forest ecosystem health in Sunriver, Oregon on January 16. Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber (D), James R. Lyons, Agriculture Undersecretary for Natural Resources and Environment, and U.S. Forest Service Chief Michael Dombec... Read more »

Congressman Bob Smith, the incoming chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, today announced that the full committee will hold a hearing in Sunriver, Oregon on January 16 to highlight the generally poor state of federal forests and to examine federal forest management. The Agriculture Committee has jurisdiction over the national forest system and oversight responsibility for the Department ... Read more »