PUBLIC LAW 101-624-NOV. 28, 1990 104 STAT. 3547 (10) support research on the design, establishment, and maintenance of tree and shrub plantings to regulate the deposition of snow along roadways; and (11) conduct sociological, demographic, and economic studies as needed to develop strategies for increasing the use of forestry conservation and agroforestry practices. (c) INFORMATION COLLECTION AND DISSEMINATION.— The Secretary shall establish at the Center a program, to be known as the National Clearinghouse on Agroforestry Conservation and Promotion to— (1) collect, anal}rze, and disseminate information on agroforestry conservation technologies and practices; and (2) promote the use of such information by lemdowners and those organizations associated with forestry and tree promotion. (d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— There are authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 annually to carry out this section. SEC. 1244. FOREST LAND PROTECTION. (a) NORTHERN FOREST LANDS. —In furtherance of Public Law 100- State listing. 446, the Secretary of Agriculture (hereafter in this section referred to as the "Secretary") is authorized to continue support for the study of changing land ownership and management patterns in the northem forest lands of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. (b) NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS.— (1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary is authorized to conduct a Pennsylvania, study of the region known as the New York-New Jersey Highlands, located in the States of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, including the Sterling Forest in Orange County, New York. (2) SCOPE OF STUDY. —The study authorized under this subsection (hereafter in this subsection referred to as the "study") shall include an identification and assessment of^ (A) the physiographic boundaries of the region referred to in this subsection (hereafter in this subsection referred to as the "region"); (B) forest resources of the region, including (but not limited to) timber and other forest products, fish and wildlife, lakes and rivers, and recreation; (C) historical land ownership patterns in the region and projected future land ownership, management, and use, including future recreational demands and deficits and the potential economic benefits of recreation to the region; (D) the likely impacts of changes in land and resource ownership, management, and use on traditional land use patterns in the region, including economic stability and employment, public use of private lands, natural integrity, and local culture and quality of life; and (E) alternative conservation strategies to protect the longterm integrity and traditional uses of lands within the region. (3)./&.TERNATIVE CONSERVATION STRATEGIES. —The alternative conservation strategies referred to in paragraph (2)(E) shall include a consideration of— (A) sustained flow of renewable resources in a combination that will meet the present and future needs of society; (B) public access for recreation; (C) protection of fish and wildlife habitat;
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