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- 6. Add to existing fragmented forest ecosystems financed from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, and other sources. Priority for acquisition should go to the remaining Redwood forests and for the New England "Northern Kingdom" region. E.g.. H.R. 2274, The Natio1Ul1 Forests Redwood Act.
7. Restrict the international trade in primary forest timber, and help the remaining indigenous forest peoples of the world sustain themselves and revitalize their cultures. No legislation yet.
8. Ban the export of unprocessed timber from the U.S., and reform tax laws to encourage maximum employment in value-added wood products manufacturing. No legislation yet.
9. Create a Community Economic Transition program to sustain workers and communities which are now dependent on federally subsidized logging. Create a federal trust for stable payments to counties and schools. Abercrombie "Save America's Jobs" Amendment to H.R. 4899
10. Shift federal funding priorities from road building and timber management to forest ecosystem restoration such as native fish habitat improvement, logging road closures, and revegetation of damaged logged areas. This will help maintain jobs in forest dependent communities. No legislation yet.
11. End "money-losing" timber sales. H.R. 2501, S. 1334, the National Forest Timber Cost Recovery Act.
12. Improve tax code for non-industrial private forests to -eliminate incentives for liquidation of standing timber -encourage selection management for lands that are managed for timber production No legislation yet.
13. Mandate the U.S. Government to procure 100% post-consumer recycled or alternativ.e fiber paper for use in all agencies and offices. No legislation yet.
14. Set targets for recycled content in newspapers and for community paper recycling. Offer federal incentives to meet these goals, such as -tax breaks to newspapers who use recycled paper -funding for community park restoration or urban tree-planting No legislation yet.
15. Create economic incentives for alternative fiber use and recycling, and disincentives to virgin pulp use. Create incentives for: -new recycling mills -mill conversion from virgin to recycled pulp processing Help balance· the federal budget and create disincentives by: -taxing the outputs of virgin paper mills -adding duties to imported virgin paper. No legislation yet.
16. Place a moratorium on construction of new waste incinerators. H.R. 3253, the Pollution Prevention, Community Recycling, and Incinerator Control Act.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Save America's Forests, 4 Library Court, SE, Washington, D.C. 20003, Ph: (202) 544-9219 1/11/92
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