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  title info:
    title: Forest Service
    sub title: emerging issues highlight the need to address persistent management challenges : testimony before the Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives
  title info:
    title: Emerging issues highlight the need to address persistent management challenges
  name:
    name part: Nazzaro, Robin M.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: United States
    name part: Congress.
    name part: House.
    name part: Committee on Appropriations.
    name part: Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies.
  name:
    name part: United States
    name part: Government Accountability Office.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: remote
    extent: 18 pages : digital, PDF file.
  abstract: While the Forest Service has made improvements in many areas GAO has reported on in recent years, certain management challenges persist--with the agency struggling to manage a worsening wildland fire problem and spiraling fire costs, collect data on its activities and their costs, and demonstrate financial and performance accountability to Congress and the public. Several emerging issues facing the agency underscore the urgency of addressing these challenges. The Forest Service continues to lack strategies for using its wildland fire management funds effectively. In numerous reports over the past decade, GAO has highlighted the challenges the Forest Service faces in protecting the nation against the threat of wildland fires. While the agency has taken important steps to improve its wildland fire management, other key steps remain. Specifically, the agency needs to (1) develop a cohesive strategy laying out various potential long-term approaches for addressing wildland fire, the estimated costs associated with each approach, and the trade-offs involved; (2) establish clear goals and a strategy to help contain increasing wildland fire costs; (3) continue improving its processes for allocating funds and selecting projects to reduce potentially hazardous vegetation; and (4) take steps to improve its use of a new interagency budgeting and planning tool. Program management suffers from lack of data on activities and costs. GAO's work over the years points to a persistent shortcoming in the Forest Service's management of its activities: the lack of adequate data on program activities and costs. This shortcoming spans multiple land management programs, including programs for selling timber and rehabilitating and reforesting lands that have been burned, as well as administrative functions such as the competitive sourcing program, which aims to increase competition between federal entities and private sector organizations. Inadequate data have hindered field managers in carry…
  note: statement of Robin M. Nazzaro.
  note: Title from title screen (viewed on Mar. 12, 2009).
  note: "For release ... March 11, 2009."
  note: Paper version available from: U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, 441 G St., NW, Rm. LM, Washington, D.C. 20548.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Mode of access: Internet from GAO web site. Address as of 3/12/09: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09443t.pdf ; current access available via PURL.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Forest Service.
  subject:
    topic: Forest reserves
    geographic: United States
    topic: Management
  subject:
    topic: Public lands
    geographic: United States
    topic: Management
  classification: GA 1.5/2:GAO-09-443 T
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Testimony ; GAO-09-443T
  identifier: GAO (202)512-6000 (voice); (202)512-6061 (Fax); (202)512-2537 (TDD)
  identifier: https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/LPS113420
  record info:
    record content source: EJB
    record creation date: 090312
    record change date: 20211202191759.0
    record identifier: in00002460695