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October 29, 1993 

 File #1412-HR 2866 



Con9resB]B^m Charlie Rose 



2230-RHOB 



Rayburn House Office Bldg. 



Independence & S. Capitol Street, S.W. 



Washington, D.C. 20515 



Dear Congrassnan Rose: 



We are writing to express our opposition to H.R. 2866, 

 the Headwaters Forest Act. The California Forestry 

 Association (CFA) is a trade association of timber 

 growers and aanufactiurers of wood products. This bill 

 has a direct impact on our members. Oior Biembers produce 

 80% of the wood products produced in California, 70% of 

 which remains in the state to support a healthy state 

 economy. Recent debates over the management of federal 

 lands has caused our members an increased depandeiicy on 

 private lands. Until recent years, 50% of th« products 

 manufacttired by our members originated on private Icmds. 

 In 1992, 72% of the products originated on private lands. 



H.R. 2866 proposes to take between 44,000 and 57,000 

 acres of private lamds against the will of the landowners 

 and add them to the national forest systsm. John 

 Campbell, President and chief Executive Officer of 

 Pacific Lumber Company, the major landowner of the 

 proposed acquisition, testified the following facts 

 before the Subconaittee on National Parks, Forests and 

 Public lands. Committee on Natural Resources. 



Pacific Limber is willing to sell, trade or 

 otherwise transfer no laore tham 4,500 acres in and 

 ciround the area known as the Headwaters. 



o The voters of the State of California rejected 

 three separate ballot initiatives in 1990 which 

 would have provided fiinds for the acquisition of 

 the Headwaters. 



o Another ballot measure with partial funding for 

 the Headwaters acquisition is being planned for 

 1994 or 1995 by California state officials. 



PeU3ific Lumber has already donated or sold at 

 below value nearly 20,000 acres of California's 

 most magnificent redwoods for preservation and 

 inclusion in state and county park systams. 



