Proclamation 5731 --
National Forest Products Week, 1987
By
the President of the
A
Proclamation
This
year we Americans again set aside a week in October to remind ourselves that
from earliest times our vast forests have provided us with food, water, fuel,
and raw materials, and that forests remain a source of countless products necessary
for our shelter, comfort, and utility. We can be truly grateful for the jobs
and trade that forests generate, for the extensive part forest products play in
our national life, and for our firmly established national policy of wise use
and preservation of forest resources.
We
can be grateful too for the occurrence this year of one of the most active
tree-planting campaigns in our history. The new forest trees going into the
ground this year will be our living legacy for the generations to come. Tomorrow's
forests will be productive and continually renewing sources of wood for
housing, furniture, and paper; of water for drinking and irrigation; of rich
habitats for fish and wildlife; and of opportunities for outdoor recreation.
Just as now, forests will be vital to our economic, social, and environmental
well-being in the future -- and just as now, we will need careful and creative
stewardship to nurture them.
To
promote greater awareness and appreciation of the many benefits of forests for
our Nation, the Congress, by Public Law 86 - 753 (36 U.S.C. 163), has
designated the week beginning on the third Sunday in October of each year as
``National Forest Products Week'' and authorized and requested the President to
issue a proclamation in observance of this week.
Now,
Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the
In
Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this sixteenth day of October, in
the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-seven, and of the
Ronald
Reagan
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