"Mark Rey", former timber industry lobbyist, was the undersecretary for natural resources and agriculture in the federal government of the United States under the Bush administration. He was sworn in as the undersecretary for natural resources and environment by the Agriculture Secretary, Ann M. Veneman on October 2, 2001. His duty was to monitor the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service and Natural Resource Conservation Service.

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Our objective … will be to give everyone involved the ability to look at each and every tract (of land proposed for sale), to satisfy themselves if they want to, that these tracts are worthy of what we are proposing.

We want everyone to be comfortable with every half-acre that stays on the list.

The Forest Service has had an active land acquisition program for the last 50 years at the end of the day, the size of Forest Service holdings will continue to grow.

We estimate it will take 150,000 to 200,000 acres to meet the offset.

We will probably drop some tracts from the candidate list.

There aren't $800 million worth of funding cuts that we could find, which is why we are looking at this as a revenue raiser.

The act provided guaranteed payments to rural counties for road maintenance and schools.

Land sales are a sensitive issue, and the public will have an opportunity to comment on the proposal. Then, we will revise the list one more time before transmitting it to Congress.

They are isolated, expensive to manage, and no longer necessary to meet the needs of U.S. Forest Service goals.