• Barringer, Richard
  Maine Department of Conservation
  
• Bartlett, Robert
  Great Northern Paper Company
  
• Dimond, John
  University of Maine
  
• Gardiner, Robert
  Natural Resources Council of Maine
  
• Morton, Richard
  Maine Legislature
  
• Raisch, Robert
  U.S. Forest Service
  
• Stowell, Rand
  Maine Forest Products Council
  

Legislation enacted by the 109th Maine Legislature early in 1979 mandated that the Commissioner of the Department of Conservation present to the Legislature by January 1, 1980, his recommendations for future spruce budworm control policy in Maine, and draft legislation to implement them (Chapter 69, Section 7, of the Public Laws of 1979).

The Commissioner invited a number of representatives of interested organizations to assist the Department of Conservation in this policy review. The Budworm Policy Review Committee, chaired by the Commissioner, met freqently during the summer and fall of 1979 to consider options for budworm management, and how they might best be administered and financed to meet the Legislature's stated policy objectives. These include a significant reduction in pesticide use in the Maine forest; maximum landowner freedom to choose whether or not to participate in any future spray projects; a more equitable distribution of budworm protection program costs among affected landowners; and reduction of the tez burden on owners not being sprayed in a given year. Throughout its deliberations, the Committee received assistance from the staffs of the Green Woods Project, the Maine Forest Service, and the U.S. Forest Service.

The findings and recommendations which follow are the result of the Committee's deliberations. Together with the public comments and reactions to them, they will be considered by the Commissioner in making his final recommendations to the Legislature.