• Blue Ribbon Panel II
  American Pulp & Paper Assoc.
  

In the three years since publication of the BRPII report and enactment of the authorizing legislation to implement an annual system, significant improvements in the program have occurred. Leadership within the USFS has focused greater resources and time on an issue that the forestry community believes is at the top of its priorities. Great strides were made in developing a strategic plan to implement the program and work with the research stations, state foresters, academia and the forestry community in implementing an annual system. These are commendable accomplishments.

Growing concerns regarding issues of timber supply, demand and availability, maintenance of biodiversity, forest sustainability, forest health and global climate change foster a sense of urgency in implementing these recommendations. Each of the of the BRP recommendations is discussed in more detail in the sections of the report.