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invitation and Dirksen listened courteously. 



Forest Service appropriation requests were un 

 doubtedly prejudiced by being a relatively small part 

 of the large appropriation requests for the Department 

 of Agriculture, with most committee members either 

 being more interested in other elements of the appro 

 priation or loathe to increase the already-huge total. 

 So, it was not until the Forest Service appropriations 

 were included in the Interior Department bill that 

 we began to get substantial increases. Here Senator 

 Hayden, Chairman of the full committee[Senate Committee 

 on Appropriations] in the Senate, exercised a powerful 

 influence. Repeatedly the Senate has substantially 

 increased the House allowances and the inevitable 

 compromises in conference have sometimes provided the 

 Forest Service with more than the Budget recommended. 



The House Committee on Interior Affairs has been 

 less helpful than the Committee on Agriculture, where 

 as their Senate counterpart, long chairmanned by 

 Senator Anderson of New Mexico has usually given fine 

 support, not only to the Forest Service but to con 

 servation measures in general, including such important 

 measures as the Wilderness Bill. 



