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botany, fisheries biology, geology, and geographic 

 information specialties. Our staff includes trained 

 wildlife biologists and biological technicians and several 

 foresters certified by the California Department of Fish 

 and Game with regard to the marbled murrelet and 

 experienced with regard to other listed, candidate or 

 sensitive species. 



Our list of past clients includes the California 

 State Parks, Save-The-Redwoods-League, USFS, Bureau of 

 Land Management, Internal Revenue Service, Indian tribes 

 and corporations, and numerous industrial forestland 

 owners, including The Pacific Lumber Company and almost 

 every other major company in this area. We also manage 

 approximately 25,000 acres of timberlands owned by small, 

 non-industrial landowners. 



Perhaps our most notable appraisal experience 

 regarding the determination of timber values are those 

 related to the creation, and the subsequent 1978 

 Expansion, of Redwood National Park. Our firm inventoried 

 and appraised land and timber taken from industrial forest 

 landowners in both condemnations. We also presented these 

 values in federal court. To a large degree, our values 

 were accepted at both trials. 



I appear before you today at the request of 

 Congressman Hansen to provide some general information 

 regarding the value of redwood timberlands in coastal 



