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■ STATEMENT OF 

 DAVID G. UNGER, ASSOCIATE CHIEF 

 FOREST SERVICE 

 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Before che 



Subcommiccee on National Parks, Forescs and Lands 



Commictee on Resources 



United States House of Representatives 



Concerning 

 Ecosystem Assessments 



Washington D.C. 

 May 21, 1996 



MR. CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE: 



I am pleased to be here today to discuss ecosystem assessments in 

 the Forest Service, and in particular to discuss three 

 assessments that are near completion, che Southern Appalachian 

 Assessment (SAA) , the Interior Columbia River Basin Ecosystem 

 Management Project (ICBEMP) assessment, and the Sierra Nevada 

 Ecosystem Project (SNEP) assessment. I am accompanied today by 

 Philip Aune, Research Program Manager, Pacific Southwest Station; 

 Jeff Blackwood, Project Manager of che Interior Columbia River 

 Basin Ecosystem Project; R. Forrest Carpenter and Charles Van 

 Sickle, Co- Chair Project Managers of the Southern Appalachian 

 Assessment and Bill Sexton, of our Land Management Planning 

 scaf f . 



