Wally, you are right.  He said the nation gets a high percentage of its drinking water from forests and agricultural land.  I would not call forests agricultural land.  Jerry
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This announcement is basically generalities. The real importance will be in the details. I hope there really is a new perspective toward forests. Vilsack has always been a corporate lackey so I think we need to be vigilant. 
 
One point did fly out at me. He talks of using forests as a source for biofuels. This seems to continue the view of foresters that forests are crops to be planted, managed and harvested for human consumption, not as a part of the ecosystem in their own right. 
 
Wally Taylor

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