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FOREST RESOURCES OBJECTIVE - The Forest Plan must insure a reliable 

 and sustainable harvest quantity of a minimum of 110 MMBF as 

 demonstrated by the most recent information used by the Black Hills 

 National Forest. 



A healthy forest products industry is necessary as a management 

 tool to achieve other objectives from the forest such as managing 

 fuel loading, preventing disease and insect infestations, 

 minimizing pine encroachment, increasing the availability of water 

 and forage, and increasing plant and animal diversity. 



Management must begin early in the successional stage of the forest 

 to provide for a continued healthy and productive forest. 



Any old growth areas should be managed to reflect condition of old 

 growth of the Black Hills as shown 100 years ago, not as shown by 

 the biology of other parts of the Pacific Northwest. 



CONCLUSION - "If you can't measure it, you can't manage it" is 

 valid. Without the measurement of outputs such as visitor deiys, 

 campsite visits, animal months, or board feet, management becomes 

 a process without a result. The economy, the environment and the 

 public would be ill-served by such a situation. 



The Forest Plan must clearly state management objectives and 

 planned level of outputs. Output level ifto^ be sustain<^^^3^ aa^ 

 predictable, and reflect the Forest's corangiv'iiftent to att3injBfte»t . 



