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EFFECTIVE DATE: 03/28/2003
DURATION: This supplement is effective until superseded or removed.
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1651.1 – News Releases
Local Personnel Actions. Forest Supervisors are authorized and responsible for issuing news
releases covering transfers or retirements of employees under their jurisdiction. News releases
concerning Regional Office (RO) employees will be cleared through the RO Public and
Governmental Relations office (PGR).
In transfers between Forests, the receiving and losing Forests shall determine a release date. In
transfers in or out of the RO, or between Region 1 and another Region or Agency, the RO PGR
office will determine a mutually satisfactory release date.
1652 – CLIPPINGS
All newspapers of general circulation with a web address or without containing appropriate
items; within the zone of each national forest, should be added electronically or clipped and
scanned into the News Clips Database.
1. Needs
a. Washington Office:
Any article pertaining to information that might well be brought to the attention of the
Secretary of Agriculture or the Chief, especially by members of the Congressional
delegation. Other "select" news or feature articles of interest.
b. Regional Office:
Any articles, based on one’s best professional judgment, which the Regional Forester
and/or Staff Directors should be aware of.
2. Procedures
a. Forests:
(1) Primarily, article(s) chosen should be copied and pasted from the Internet,
OR
(2) Scan article(s) directly from the newspaper(s), or those not found on the Internet.
(3) Photocopies are acceptable.
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 Be sure to copy the entire article.
 Electronic articles with photo(s) must first be copied to a Microsoft Word or
A Corel WordPerfect document where the photo(s) can be removed before
adding.
 Scanning articles or news clippings that are not available on the Internet
should not be copied too close to the edge of the page.
 Photo-reduced articles must be legible enough to be recopied.
 One article per page.
 Do not copy articles back-to-back.
(4) If a news clip is of extreme importance, telephone the Region 1 PGR office about
the story. Depending on your office capabilities, you may be asked to telefax (FAX)
or email the item to the Washington Office and to the RO.
(5) Do not duplicate clips of the same story from more than one newspaper.
b. Regional Office:
(1) News clips will be evaluated each morning with significant items being sent to
the Washington Office electronically or by FAX.
(2) Clips will be forwarded to the Regional Forester, Staff Directors, Chief’s Office,
Office of the General Counsel, other Regions, and Forests that have requested them.
(3) A chronological collection of clips will be maintained for the calendar year in the
PGR office. Copies will be bound at the end of the year. Electronic copies should be
consolidated and stored on a data disk.
c. Responsibilities:
(1) Each Forest is responsible for subscribing to weekly newspapers in their Forest
area and clipping news articles from them.
(2) The Region 1 PGR office will subscribe to and clip news articles from the
Missoulian and Great Falls Tribune. Forests should not duplicate the clipping from
these newspapers.
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(3) Forest responsibilities for clipping daily newspapers are:
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Beaverhead-Deerlodge – Montana Standard, Dillon Tribune
Bitterroot -- Ravalli Republic
Clearwater -- Lewiston Tribune
Custer -- Billings Gazette and Bismarck Tribune
Dakota Prairie – Bismarck Tribune
Flathead -- Daily Interlake
Gallatin -- Bozeman Daily Chronicle and Livingston Enterprise
Helena -- Independent Record
Idaho Panhandle -- Spokesman Review
(Other daily newspapers may be clipped at Forests' discretion.)