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people, and trade and service-sector activity has without question been driven by concealed 

 segments of the econonrte base. Mr. Stewart seems to be suggesting that these offsetting 

 effects are themselves the result of reduced timber harvest that need to be accounted for in 

 the timber-industry-emptoyment estimating equations. Such a suggestion is simply 

 nonsense, since these effects must be regarded as independent events. The same analysis 

 that can be used to predict job losses can also be used to show how much larger and more 

 pnssperous the community would have been had it not been for the offsets. 



Mr. Stewart is apparently part of the movement that has worked diligently for the past 

 twenty-five years to try and shut down the forest products industry on the north coast. That 

 movement has been successful beyond the early expectations of its leadership. It doesnt 

 appear that the movement is going to quit as long as it is winning the political rent-seeking 

 battles. But it takes some chutzpah to first cut off the legs of the timber industry and then 

 point out how short and crippled it has become. Mr. STewart and his associates seem to be 

 saying that since the industry is so small now. nobody should mind if they finish the job of 

 killing it off. 



As Yogi Bena used to say, it is deja vu all over again! Once again we are hearing 

 the same lies about tourist bonanzas that we were tokJ when Redwood National Park was 

 first created and again when it was expanded. The buyout of the headwaters forest and the 

 timberfands surrounding it are going to produce a tourist bonanza that will more than offset 

 the loss of timber industry jobs. That claim for the original RNP and its subsequent 

 expansion, were never substantiated by subsequent experience. Even Mr. Stewart seems to 

 understand that when he states, 'The growth in non-wage income is considerably more 

 important than the relatively small increase in tourism and recreation dollars that also 

 occurred over the same period.* 



