We're having tremendous problems with phone service. The reporters can't dial in here. The land lines are all messed up. Communication is a very, very big problem.

If you put it into context of the over 20 million acres of Forest Service land, it is not that much. But every acre is precious.

We plan to develop on the land of a service apartment project with an estimated GDV of RM218mil, with tentative selling price of about RM800 per sq ft.

It looks like most of this is small in-fill development. As large tracts of land in the urban service boundary vanish, this is what is supposed to happen ? small in-fill projects.

We are the only forest service in the West attached to a land grant institute,

There is the right of the public to know who is influencing public decisions.