[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 241 (Tuesday, December 16, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 65795]
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[FR Doc No: 97-32949]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Office of the Secretary


Committee on Scientists; Appointment of Committee Members

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Secretary of Agriculture has appointed 13 persons to serve 
on the Committee of Scientists, which is chartered to provide 
scientific and technical advice to the Secretary of Agriculture and the 
Chief of the Forest Service on improvements to the Forest Service land 
management planning process.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jonathan Stephens, Ecosystem 
Management Coordination Staff, Forest Service, telephone: (202) 205-
0948.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of establishment of the Committee of 
Scientists, along with a request for nominations, was published August 
15, 1997 (62 FR 43691). The following individuals have been appointed 
to serve on the Committee:
    1. Committee Chair: Dr. Norman Johnson, Professor, Department of 
Forest Resources, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
    2. Dr. James Agee, Professor, Forest Ecology, University of 
Washington, Seattle, WA.
    3. Dr. Virginia Dale, Senior Scientist, Environmental Sciences 
Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN.
    4. Dr. Roger Sedjo, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future, 
Washington, D.C.
    5. Dr. Bob Beschta, Professor, Forest Hydrology, Oregon State 
University, Corvallis, OR.
    6. Dr. Larry Nielsen, Professor and Director, School of Forest 
Resources, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
    7. Dr. Barry Noon, Associate Professor, Department of Fish and 
Wildlife, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
    8. Dr. Ron Trosper, Professor and Director, Native American 
Forestry Program, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ.
    9. Dr. Julia Wondolleck, Assistant Professor, School of Natural 
Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
    10. Dr. Linda Hardesty, Associate Professor, Forest and Range 
Management, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.
    11. Charles Wilkinson, Professor of Law, University of Colorado, 
Boulder, CO.
    12. Dr. James Long, Professor, Department of Forest Resources, Utah 
State University, Logan, UT.
    13. Dr. Margaret Shannon, Associate Professor, Department of Public 
Administration and Center for Environmental Policy and Administration, 
Syracuse, New York.
    The first meeting of the Committee of Scientists is scheduled for 
December 19, 1997, at the Holiday Inn O'Hare International, 5440 North 
River Road, Rosemont, Illinois (62 FR 64195, December 4, 1997).

    Dated: December 12, 1997.
Brian Eliot Burke,
Deputy Under Secretary, Natural Resources and Environment.
[FR Doc. 97-32949 Filed 12-15-97; 8:45 am]
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