GLICKMAN APPOINTS FOUR TO NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS
                                        
                                     
                       			Release No. 0250.97
                                                               
                                   Jim Petterson (202) 720-4623
                                         jim.petterson@usda.gov
                                         Alan Polk (202) 205-1134
                                            http://www.fs.fed.us/


GLICKMAN APPOINTS FOUR TO NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS

     WASHINGTON, July 28, 1997--Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman today
announced the appointment of four new members to the Board of Directors of
the National Forest Foundation.

     All of the new board members have extensive professional backgrounds
in addition to their distinguished public service.  The new appointees are: 

Nedenia (Nina) Rumbough, director of public relations, Holland and Holland,
Greenwich, Conn.;

Stedman Graham, president and CEO of S. Graham & Associates, Chicago, Ill.; 

Michael Berry, president, National Ski Areas Association, Denver, Colo.; and 

Walter Scott Jr., chairman, president and CEO of Peter Kiewit Sons, Inc.,
Omaha, Neb.

    "This Foundation is critical to the development of partnerships between
individuals, corporations, private conservation organizations, and federal
and local governmental organizations to support Forest Service activities
and programs," Glickman said.  "It promotes the many values of the National
Forests and other programs of the Forest Service with strong support from
the people of America.  The backgrounds and experiences of these new members
will add greatly to the Board's effectiveness in supporting the Forest
Service, and I look forward to working with them." 

    Examples of the Foundation's activities include:  financially supporting
families who lost relatives fighting forest fires, supporting Youth Forest
Camps and construction of accessible trail facilities and initiating
fund-raising efforts to provide funding for many restoration and
conservation projects throughout the nation.

    The 15 member Board of Directors are appointed to six-year terms and may
serve up to 12 consecutive years on the Board.  Participation on the Board
is voluntary and uncompensated except for expense reimbursement.

     The Foundation is a charitable, nonprofit corporation, authorized by
the National Forest Foundation Act of 1990 to support the Forest Service
through fund raising and the development of private-public partnerships.

                                 
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