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hope to see that continue far into the future. In fact, we have the 

 best interests of the people of the community in mind in our work. 



Mr. POMBO. Thank you. 



Mr, Rose. Any other questions? 



Mr. KL\MBURG. Just one, real quickly. 



Ms. Lanman, you spoke just recently, of the failure of the regu- 

 latory system to protect the resource. And one of the things that 

 you have referred to and that Ms. Bailey has referred to, is the reg- 

 ulation of the harvest of this old-growth timber under the Csilifor- 

 nia Department of Forestry and the board of forestry. And I would 

 like to ask you if you would just for the subcommittee's visual en- 

 lightenment, if you would just show us the photograph that was 

 taken, the aerial photo that was taken in September of 1991, of the 

 4,400-, or 4,500-acre Headwaters Forest and just describe briefly 

 for us what has happened there over the last several years under 

 Maxxam's management? 



Ms. Lanman. Here is the photograph. As you can see from the 

 photograph, the very dark areas represents the intact ancient old- 

 growth forest, the closed canopy, and the massive trees that are 

 there. And the surrounding areas obviously have been logged quite 

 severely. 



Mr. Hamburg. This is within the acreage that Maxxam has said 

 they want to sell or they are willing to sell to the Federal Govern- 

 ment? 



Ms. Lanman. That is correct. This area here approximately is 

 equal to the area appraised by the U.S. Forest Service and would 

 equal the 4,400 acres. This is the most pristine intact area of an- 

 cient redwood forest at this elevation in the entire State. 



This drainage, the little south fork of the Elk River, has never 

 been logged. In fact, it was owned by the State of California in the 

 early 1940's and we are looking into how that transfer took place 

 at this time. 



But at any rate, I want to address the question of the logging 

 practices. Here you will see a clearcut that was filed in 1986, by 

 the Pacific Lumber Company, and it was cut, a clearcut, in 1987. 

 It is at the headwaters of Salmon Creek. And as we have heard in 

 testimony, the headwaters are very important in terms of protect- 

 ing the downstream fishery's resource. This is obviously not going 

 to sustain the fishery's resource to be clearcutting in that manner. 



In addition, you can see a road segment extending off of that. In 

 1986, when we were in court, the judge held up Pacific Lumber's 

 continuing building of this road. As soon as we won and the final 

 judgment was in, the judge had overturned the clearcut they had 

 planned, that would have surrounded this road segment. And the 

 Department of Forestry, without anyone's knowledge, permitted 

 the Pacific Lumber Company to get a 2-year extension on this plan 

 and also allowed them to extend the road segment and build it into 

 the heart of the most pristine part of the Headwaters Forest. 



This was done without any public knowledge, nor was the judge 

 or EPIC notified, even though we had just successfully litigated the 

 clearcutting in this area. This has been a major intrusion and we 

 believe it was very illegal, but after the fact, we haven't been able 

 to do anything about it. 



