[PCA] NEWS: Attempt to move Forest Service across town could spark turf war

Olivia Kwong plant at plantconservation.org
Mon Mar 2 15:09:34 CST 2009


http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090228/sc_mcclatchy/3177920

Attempt to move Forest Service across town could spark turf war
By Les Blumenthal, Mcclatchy Newspapers -- Sat Feb 28, 6:00 am ET

WASHINGTON . In what eventually could become a major bureaucratic turf 
war, there have been stirrings on Capitol Hill about moving the U.S. 
Forest Service from the Agriculture to the Interior Department.

For more than a century, the Forest Service, which manages the federal 
forests, has been part of the Agriculture Department, while the nation's 
three other public lands agencies -- the Bureau of Land Management, the 
Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service -- have been at 
Interior.

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