[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 241 (Tuesday, December 16, 1997)] [Notices] [Page 65795] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 97-32949] ======================================================================== Notices Federal Register ________________________________________________________________________ This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains documents other than rules or proposed rules that are applicable to the public. Notices of hearings and investigations, committee meetings, agency decisions and rulings, delegations of authority, filing of petitions and applications and agency statements of organization and functions are examples of documents appearing in this section. ======================================================================== Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 241 / Tuesday, December 16, 1997 / Notices [[Page 65795]] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Office of the Secretary Committee on Scientists; Appointment of Committee Members AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Secretary of Agriculture has appointed 13 persons to serve on the Committee of Scientists, which is chartered to provide scientific and technical advice to the Secretary of Agriculture and the Chief of the Forest Service on improvements to the Forest Service land management planning process. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jonathan Stephens, Ecosystem Management Coordination Staff, Forest Service, telephone: (202) 205- 0948. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of establishment of the Committee of Scientists, along with a request for nominations, was published August 15, 1997 (62 FR 43691). The following individuals have been appointed to serve on the Committee: 1. Committee Chair: Dr. Norman Johnson, Professor, Department of Forest Resources, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. 2. Dr. James Agee, Professor, Forest Ecology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 3. Dr. Virginia Dale, Senior Scientist, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN. 4. Dr. Roger Sedjo, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C. 5. Dr. Bob Beschta, Professor, Forest Hydrology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. 6. Dr. Larry Nielsen, Professor and Director, School of Forest Resources, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 7. Dr. Barry Noon, Associate Professor, Department of Fish and Wildlife, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. 8. Dr. Ron Trosper, Professor and Director, Native American Forestry Program, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ. 9. Dr. Julia Wondolleck, Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 10. Dr. Linda Hardesty, Associate Professor, Forest and Range Management, Washington State University, Pullman, WA. 11. Charles Wilkinson, Professor of Law, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. 12. Dr. James Long, Professor, Department of Forest Resources, Utah State University, Logan, UT. 13. Dr. Margaret Shannon, Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration and Center for Environmental Policy and Administration, Syracuse, New York. The first meeting of the Committee of Scientists is scheduled for December 19, 1997, at the Holiday Inn O'Hare International, 5440 North River Road, Rosemont, Illinois (62 FR 64195, December 4, 1997). Dated: December 12, 1997. Brian Eliot Burke, Deputy Under Secretary, Natural Resources and Environment. [FR Doc. 97-32949 Filed 12-15-97; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3410-11-M