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[From EcoNet ecotopia.news Conference]

FS Inadequate 
 
More than two-thirds of Forest Service employees who responded
to a poll believe the agency is not doing an adequate job of
protecting the nation's resources.
 
The survey of more than 5,000 employees was conducted by the
Association of Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
(AFSEEE).
 
It found that 80% of respondents felt the Forest Service needs
to devote more effort to sustainable land practices, 76% wanted
more recycling and conservation and 70% said the agency should
advocate old-growth protection.
 
Only 6% felt that the most important role for employees was to
promote practices emphasizing commodity extraction.  In fact,
the top priority of those surveyed was for the agency to
eliminate hard targets for commodity outputs.
 
Nearly one-third of those polled also said they or someone they
knew had been censured or pressured on the job becuase of their
environmental ethics.
 
(From ECONEWS, Newsletter of the Northcoast Environmental
Center, September 1992. Write 879 9th St., Arcata, CA 95521,
or e-mail nec@igc.apc.org, for a free copy.)