Forest Service Budget Reform Campaign

The Forest Service's Commercial Timber Program

Over the past 50 years, a variety of subsidies have evolved that provide tremendous benefits to the timber industry while employing an excessive and costly Forest Service bureaucracy. These subsidies have been the primary incentive for the excessive cutting of taxpayer-owned National Forests. Use the following links to learn more about the Forest Service's commercial timber program: Read the administration's FY 2006 Timber Program Budget Proposal Read Lost in the Forest: How the Forest Service's Misdirection, Mismanagement, and Mischief Squanders Your Tax Dollars Access In the Red: National Forest Logging Continues to Lose Millions, a report released by Taxpayers for Common Sense in June 2001 (pdf) Click here to find out how hundreds of millions of tax dollars are spent to subsidize private logging operations on national forests. Just the facts: numbers and figures on Forest Service budget reform. The Forest Service budget process: How does it work? The Forest Service "trust funds": What they are and how they work.