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acres (and additional acreage exceeding 13,000 acres as a 

 "study area") and add it to the Six Rivers National 

 Forest. Substantially all of this acreage is owned by 

 Pacific Lumber. If passed in its present form, H.R. 2866 

 would thus take away or otherwise adversely impact almost 

 30 percent of Pacific Lumber's nearly 195,000 acres of 

 timberland (including some of its most valuable 

 acreage). This would have a devastating effect on our 

 company, its employees and on Humboldt County as a whole. 



Humboldt County, where I have lived and worked for 

 more than 24 years, still suffers from an unemployment 

 rate that is in the double digits and still is in a period 

 of deepening recession following numerous recent mill 

 closings in our area. Indeed,, the area's economic plight 

 has been aptly described in the current (October 1993) 

 issue of Smithsonian magazine in an article entitled "A 

 new park saved the tall trees, but at a high cost to the 

 community" . 



Nevertheless, my company, which is the largest 

 private employer in Humboldt County, has steadily 

 increased its work force and its tax payments for local 

 schools, roads and social welfare programs. This was true 

 before we were acquired by Maxxam Inc. in 1986 and it 

 remains true today. Over half of our approximately 1,250 

 employees have been with us for more than 10 years and a 

 fourth of those have been with us for two decades or 



