John Crowell This is Me

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1. 1. ZERO CUT

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   Published on: 7/3/1999   Last Visited: 8/14/2000

   Forest Service oversight positions at the Agriculture Department went to new appointees like Louisiana-Pacific executive John Crowell, who pledged to accelerate timber cutting, even though environmentalists considered current levels already unacceptably high.
   
   Studies Reveal the Real Costs
   
   During this period, environmentalists also began to look more closely at the economics of timber cutting in the national forests. And in response to criticism from environmental groups and citizens, members of Congress began to demand independent economic analysis of Forest Service timber cutting.
   
   These studies revealed that timber sales in the majority of National Forests are money losers and are costing U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars every year.

2. 2. Already Reinvented

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   Published on: 4/12/2006   Last Visited: 12/9/2007

   In 1981, President Reagan appointed Louisana-Pacific executive John Crowell to be assistant secretary of agriculture in charge of the Forest Service. Crowell immediately announced that he thought he could double national forest timber sales.
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   The Reagan appointee in question was not John Crowell, but his assistant, Doug MacCleery.
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   MacCleery had been a lobbyist for the National Forest Products Association and was hired by Crowell to help watch the Forest Service.
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   While they met their targets, they didn't do any more--and Crowell wanted much more.
   
   What got MacCleery upset was that the plans didn't even seriously evaluate the possibility of selling more. "The decisions were made before the plans were written," he says, "and planners didn't seriously look at alternatives."
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   The Forest Service, and Jeff Sirmon in particular, read this as a threat that the administration would replace regional foresters with political appointees if they didn't come up with plans that pleased Crowell and MacCleery.
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   The second strike was the economy: Even as Crowell was thumping for more national forest timber sales, the timber industry was suffering its biggest downturn since the Great Depression.
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   Then document it so well that Crowell and MacCleery can't poke any holes in it."
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   But it wasn't just him: Everyone in Region 6, it seemed, was liberated by Jeff Sirmon's defiance of Crowell and MacCleery.
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   Although Crowell left office in 1985, MacCleery stayed through 1987.

3. 3. Archive Detail

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   Published on: 3/7/2006   Last Visited: 3/7/2006

   John Crowell was made chief of the Forest Service by Ronald Reagan.