Healthy Forests Initiative

Press Releases, Testimony, and Op-eds

 

 


Photo of Forests

 

“. . . I want to emphasize the fact that through good forest management we can do a better job of containing fire . . . . and we’re going to make sure that if there is a fire, it does as little damage as possible.”

President George W. Bush
Remarks made at Rocky Mountain National Park Colorado

August 14, 2001

 

     

PRESS RELEASES

 

Secretary Norton Announces Implementation of Hungry Valley Wildfire Project: Touts President's FY 2005 Budget Request, February 7, 2004

 

Bush Administration Proposes Increased Funding to Maintain and Restore Forest and Rangeland Health, January 28, 2004


President Bush Signs Healthy Forest Restoration Act into Law, December 3, 2003


Implementation of the Healthy Forests Initiative, December 3, 2003

 

Secretary Norton Applauds Passage of Healthy Forests Legislation, November 21, 2003

Interior Secretary Gale Norton and Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman praise Senate passage of Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003, October 30, 2003


Assistant Secretary Scarlett Announces WFLC Innovations That Will Strengthen Wildland Fire-Fighting, October 22, 2003


Secretary Norton Applauds Passage of Healthy Forests Legislation, August 21, 2003, November 21, 2003

 

 

 

 

 

Cabinet Officials Announce Renewable Energy Initiative: Promote use of woody biomass from restoration and hazardous fuels treatment projects, June 19, 2003

 

Memorandum of Understanding On Policy Principles For Woody Biomass Utilization for Restoration and Fuel Treatments on Forests, Woodlands, and Rangelands, June 18, 2003


President's Remarks, May 2003


President Emphasizes Healthy Forests, Wildland Firefighting in 2004 Budget, January 30, 2003


Sec. Norton Announces New Firefighting Initiatives; Details Locations of Five New Healthy Forest Pilot Projects, January 15, 2003


Bush Administration Proposes Steps to Restore Forest and Rangeland Health, December 11, 2002

 

 

TESTIMONY

 

 

The President's Healthy Forests Initiative Mark Rey, Rebecca Watson, Dale Bosworth, and Peter Roussopoulos Before the United States House Committee on Agriculture, April 30, 2003

 

Statement of Gale A. Norton, Secretary of the Interior,Before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resourceson the 2002 President’s Budget Request, February 11, 2003

 

 

Crisis on the National Forests: Containing the Threat of Wildland Fire to the Environment and Communities, Patrick Moore, Before the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health. Flagstaff, Arizona, March 7, 2003

 

Forest Fire Impacts and Preparedness for 2003, Lynn Scarlett and Dave Tenny, Before the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, March 13, 2003

 

 

GUEST EDITORIALS AND OP-EDS PUBLISHED

 

 

A Better Plan For the Forests, Gale A. Norton, Washington Post, September 17, 2002

 

Cut the Red Tape, Restore Our Forests,
Gale A. Norton and Ann M. Veneman

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

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