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Pressures by individual members of Congress have 

 rarely been carried to the extreme since the early days. 

 I recall that my predecessor as Supervisor of the 

 Medicine Bow National Forest had antagonized Senator 

 Warren of Wyoming, Chairman of the Appropriations 

 Committee, because of refusing to bow to the senator s 

 demands for special treatment of his sheep-grazing 

 permit, and the supervisor was transferred to another 

 national forest. Evidently the Senator was mollified 

 because I do not recall any unusual pressure from him. 



As a rule, however, both the Forest Service and the 

 Secretaries of Agriculture have successfully resisted pres 

 sures where important policies or principles were involved. 



Special Interest Pressures 

 Timbermen 



Individually most timber-sale operators have 

 been reasonable and cooperative. There have always 

 been and always will be complaints about 

 stumpage prices, marking practice, log scaling and 

 other features. In a few cases complaints and 

 pressures have been extreme stumpage price too high, 

 marking too light, etc. But it has been through the 



