Another little “tidbit” of mis-information by “omission”
by the Bush Administration. This from an article in the Chattanooga Times
Free Press. If you think that the FS land sold in a specific county would
go to the schools in that county, think again! That is NOT the
case. For example, in Tennessee, 527
acres in PolkCounty are in the plan to be sold.
These counties would NOT receive those funds directly.
“The sale of the 527 acres in PolkCounty
likely would bring considerably more than what would be needed to continue the
payments, but administration officials said the money would not stay in PolkCounty.
Any proceeds from the sale of national forest acreage would be pooled, and most
would go to pay the higher subsidies in Oregon
and other Western states, said Dan Jiron, national press officer for the USDA
Forest Service in Washington,
D.C.”
