
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, March 2, 1990                   TAG: 9003023363
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A/6   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

FORESTRY PROGRAM FUNDING CUTS OPPOSED

The administration is letting "rhetoric outrun the reality" by proposing spending cuts in forestry programs needed to implement President Bush's plan to plant a billion new trees, Sen. Wyche Fowler says.

The Georgia Democrat, chairman of the Senate agriculture subcommittee on conservation and forestry, told administration officials Thursday that Bush's "America the Beautiful" tree-planting proposal won't succeed without the support of private landowners.

Those landowners, he said, won't support the program if they're hit by new expenses that were covered by the forestry assistance programs the administration wants to cut.

"One thing we cannot do is let the rhetoric outrun the reality," Fowler said. "If we tell people we're going to plant a billion trees, the resources have to be there."

- Associated Press

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