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More roads in national forests is not the answer, Steve Bonowski
S. national forests. At this time, the Forest Service has more than 380,000 miles of recognized roads, plus an estimated 50,000 additional miles of illegal routes created by off-road vehicle users. The service has a maintenance backlog estimated at more than $8 billion as many miles of these roads sink into disrepair. There is no overwhelming need to ...
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Taxpayers Will Foot Cost of Timber Industry Boondoggle, Jim DiPeso
Logging roads punched into virgin forest will become a federal liability, adding to a Forest Service roads maintenance backlog that already exceeds $8 billion. At a time of $400 billion annual deficits, the taxpayers cannot afford the timber industry's socialist paradise on the Tongass National Forest. Protecting the Tongass roadless areas protects ...
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National Wildlife Refuge Funding Crisis - Defenders of Wildlife
James Navarro National Wildlife Refuge Funding Crisis Several years of stagnant budgets have rapidly ballooned the operations and maintenance backlog of the National Wildlife Refuge System to $3.5 billion, and forced plans for a dramatic 20% downsizing of the workforce. Facts: Most refuges operate with only minimal staffing Approximately 200 refuges have no ...
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Bill Wade, Chair of the CNPSR Executive Council Centennial Fund Testimony | The Coalition of National Park Service Retirees
The National Park Service estimates its backlog at $8 billion. By any measure, the $2.4 billion in President Bush's 2008 ...
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Robert Arnberger, for the CNPSR, Testimony Before the Subcommittee on National Parks Committee | The Coalition of National Park Service Retirees
Service in the Coalition summed up the situation this way: ``The headlines are always the same''. The deferred maintenance backlog continues to grow and today's park operational deficits become tomorrow's ... resources management. The budget hemorrhage must be halted because ``today's deficits are tomorrow's backlog''. It is time to invigorate a national dialog to explore the issue of governance of ...
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Heritage Forests Campaign News Release
Only 21 percent of these roads meet adequate road maintenance standards. The current road maintenance backlog is estimated at $10 billion, with 16 states maintaining a backlog of $100 million each. "Today's congressional action is supported by businesses, academics, leaders of the faith community, labor unions and sportsmen. ...
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Heritage Forests Campaign: Our Roadless Areas - Economics
Taxpayers for Common Sense, a budget watchdog group, detailing the U.S. Forest Service accounting practices illustrate a pattern of fiscal mismanagement. An astronomical road maintenance backlog, a continually failing timber program and a poor record of financial accountability has resulted in billions of American taxpayer dollars wasted, largely at the behest of timber ...
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ParkWatch July 2006
At our most recent 2006 Bruce F. Vento Public Service Award luncheon, award recipient Senator John McCain soberly stated that the "annual operating deficit estimated at 600 million dollars in a multi-billion dollar maintenance backlog has cast a long shadow over the glory of our national parks ". Funds for land acquisition were the first to ...
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House subcommittee pulls for more funding for National Wildlife Refuges, global warming research - Defenders of Wildlife
Agencies appropriations bill marks another important step toward reversing a decade-long funding shortage that has forced the refuge system to shed upwards of 300 jobs and accumulate a staggering $3.5 billion operations and maintenance backlog in wildlife refuges throughout the nation. A coalition report released last month details the devastating impacts that this ...
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Environmental Advocates of New York
The report also points out that federal support for these types of sewage-system improvements has declined in recent years, and that the lack of funding contributes to the maintenance backlog. It’s clear to Environmental Advocates of New York that the state’s environmental agency cannot meet this huge need without ...
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