The National Forest Protection and Restoration Act (NFPRA, HR 3420) is designed to guide the transition from cut-and-run commodity management to hands-on, community-based restoration. The National Forest Protection and Restoration Act will save taxpayers money, reduce the deficit, cut corporate welfare, help communities adapt to wildland fire, and protect and restore America's natural heritage.


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* Ends the federal timber sale program in National Forests, National Wildlife Refuges, Bureau of Land Management Lands, and National Parks.

* Redirects logging subsidies towards scientifically based ecological restoration of native biological diversity.

* Protects communities by reducing the incidence of severe fire using prescribed burning and manual hazardous fuels treatments.

* Saves taxpayers over $300 million annually.

* Provides funding for worker retraining; and gives preference to displaced timber workers for jobs in the woods doing ecological restoration.

* Provides permanent funding to counties for schools and roads.

* Provides funding for environmentally sensitive non-wood alternative paper and construction materials.

* Allows the use of forest materials from restoration projects for non-commercial public purposes, such as fuel to heat low-income homes or timber for low-income housing.

"The US government is the only property owner I know which in effect pays private parties to deplete its resources," said Rep. Leach. "It is time to manage better our fiscal as well as our ecological resources."
— Bill Champion, Representative Jim Leach

Representatives Jim Leach (R-IA) and Louise Slaughter (D-NY) introduced the National Forest Protection and Restoration Act on July 26,200 to end commercial logging in National Forests. Over 200 scientists and 300 grassroots forest protection organizations support the legislation because it provides comprehensive protection for all US National Forests.

"The Forest Service and the Bush Administration cannot be trusted to do the right thing when it comes to our national forests," said Susan Curry, NFPA Executive Director.

"Protecting America's national heritage is a conservation imperative," Leach noted. "It should also be a conservative one. Indeed it is time to put 'conservation' back into 'conservatism.' For the essence of conservatism should not only be concern for conserving traditional family and social values but also our land, our air and our water."