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areas, contract arrangements, and cost-share alternatives and other 

 incentives for good forest management; 3) funding and staffing should 

 be commensurate with the demand for services resulting from the above 

 campaign. This may require additional financial assistance from the 

 federal CFM program; 4) currently, the state provides approximately 

 two-thirds to three-fourths of the CFM program costs. Increased 

 federal funding may only give justification to reduce the state's 

 financial committment to the program (Mangum, pers. comm., 2/15/78). 

 The Division of Forestry should actively object to any funding cutbacks, 

 and demonstrate its need for additional funding and personnel to 

 adequately implement the CFM program; 5) current federal funding is 

 based on a nationally standardized rate which does not necessarily match 

 the funding needs of individual states. The RPA program (described next) 

 could revise this schedule of federal cost-share funds. 



