Wait - there's more. He envisions linking up with the Nashville Network , USA Today , chains of newspapers in rural areas, to help sell recreation on the National Forests. These are not exclusively dreams, he said. He predicted realization in the next decade. Pandolfi also wants Congress to loosen the purse strings, allowing the Forest Service permanent authority to charge for recreation and reinvest the money back into the product.
Districts temporarily have that authority.
He had also worked for CBS Inc. as vice president and group publisher. But don't expect miracles overnight. Debits and credits have been around for 200 years, and it's time we used them. Had he been taking questions from a national convention of environmental groups, he probably would have been asked about the role of Forest Service lands in already fast-growing mountain valleys and about the impacts of recreation to public lands, deemed by some environmental groups to be as great as those of resource extraction. He wasn't, though, nor did he address those recreation-related topics.