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o Pacific Lumber has voluntarily 

 harvesting in the Headvat&rs since 1990. 



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o To the contrary of many media reporte , Pacific 

 LUBber is a responsible co]q>any/ using the 

 environnentsuLly correct selective cut prescription 

 over 95% of the harvested acres. Pacific Luober 

 does not clearcut virgin old growth redwoods. 



o since 1986, Pacific Lumber has added 350 new 

 eaployees, while at the sase tise, modernized its 

 mill for greater utilization of forest products. 



Pacific Lumber is operating under a property-wide 

 management plan for the northern spotted owl, 

 developed in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and 

 Wildlife Service. 



o Pacific Lumber is one of the leading private 

 researchers in fish and wildlife, having raised and 

 relea^sed over half a million salmon and steelhead 

 from the coapany-otmed fish rearing ponds and has 

 successfully raised northern spotted owl fledglings 

 from artificial nesting structures. 



o Pacific Lumber, with a 124 year memagement 

 history, utilizes computer models based on data 

 developed from a comprehensive inventcry of its 

 entire ownership to etssure current conservative 

 harvest levels are sxistainable indefinitely. 



Addition to government lemds is unnecessary. Sixty 

 percent of northern California is forested lands of which 

 54 percent is federally owned. Small private ownership 

 is 34 percent and only 12 percent Is owned by indxistrial 

 forest products companies. Over 80 percent of the 

 coastal redwoods are already preserved in federal, state 

 and county parks. In addition, redwoods en national 

 forest lands have not been harvest for nearly a decade. 

 In fact, under the President's new forest plan, 90 

 percent of the Six Rivers Narional Forest will prohibit 

 timber management. It is not reasonable to expect any of 

 the land acquired under this bill will be managed. 



AS Professors E. C. Stone, R.F. Grab, and P.J. sinke 

 stated in their analysis of the redwoods in Redwood 

 National Park, without management, "succession over the 

 next one hundred years would certainly result in some 

 change, . . . over the next f ive-huxKired years would result 

 in the predominance of hardwoods, Douglas-fir, Sitka 

 spruce, lowleund white fir, hemlock and western red 



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