the economic well-being of rural America is vital to our national growth and prosperity;

the economic well-being of many rural communities depends upon the goods and services that are derived from National Forest System land;

the economies of many of these communities suffer from a lack of industrial and business diversity;

this lack of diversity is particularly serious in communities whose economies are predominantly dependent on timber and recreation resources and where management decisions made on National Forest System land by Federal and private organizations may disrupt the supply of those resources;