Release No. 0408.96

                                     Alan Polk     (202) 205-1134
                                     Jim Petterson (202) 720-4623

GLICKMAN NAMES NEW MEMBERS TO NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION BOARD

     WASHINGTON, July 26, 1996--Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman today
announced the appointment of five members to the board of directors of the
National Forest Foundation, a charitable, nonprofit corporation authorized
by the National Forest Foundation Act of 1990.

     Four of the five members have already each served a four-year term
with the Foundation and are being reappointed to second terms of six years.
They are: W. Grant Gregory, chairman, Gregory & Hoenemeyer, Inc., Greenwich,
Conn.; James H. Duke, Jr., MD, professor of surgery, University of Texas,
Houston, Texas; Robert Model, president, Mooncrest Ranch, Cody, Wyo.; and
Ralph E. Bailey, chairman, American Bailey Corporation, Stamford, Conn.
Charles E. Long, executive vice president and corporate secretary of
Citicorp, Washington, D.C., is a new appointee to the 15-member board and
will serve a six-year term.

     Glickman said that the purposes of the Foundation are to encourage and
accept donations and gifts for those programs of USDA's Forest Service which
benefit management of the Forest Service-administered National Forests and
National Grasslands; encourage cooperation among the Forest Service, states,
and private landowners; promote forestry research; and foster cooperation in
international forestry.

     Examples of Foundation activities include financially supporting Youth
Forest Camps and construction of accessible trail facilities, establishing a
"Firefighter Fund" to assist families of firefighters who were injured or
died while fighting forest fires, and initiating fund-raising efforts to
support the Forest Service's Recreation and Wildlife Challenge Cost-Share
programs.

     "This Foundation encourages the development of partnerships between
individuals, corporations, private conservation organizations, and federal
and local governmental organizations to support Forest Service programs and
activities," he added.

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