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I have read the notes and testimony of governmental and 

 university researchers that support this bill. Their 

 support is to be expected for two reasons. First, they are 

 not faced with the economic reality of having to make a 

 living from Lh« production of a natural resource as are 

 tJioee whose livelihood is directly tied to the land. The 



?ov«rnfli«nL«l and university researcher salary will remain 

 he sane whether timber is logged or not. Therefore it is 

 easy to say that the proper management is to "preserve" the 

 forest as is. For those whose livelihood is dependent on 

 production, the question is two fold, how to retain narbled 

 murreiet: habitat and how to produce a crop. The timber 

 industry in California has learned to do that with the 

 northern spotted owls (currently 5 companies have spotted 

 owl management plans in California). Given the opportunity 

 they will do the same for the murreJet. 



The second reason is that seeing the land in the private 

 sector does not serve the interest of the governmental or 

 \iniversity researcher, for all to often they are not given 

 the opportunity to work there. This is not without just 

 cause, for simply put, when it comes to issues such as the 

 ■potted owl and the marbled murreiet governmental 

 researchers have not been very helpful in answering the 

 question of how to manage for a species concurrently with 

 harvesting a product.- All to often their answer is "lock it 

 up," 



Thus X want to encourage you to do two things: 



First, reiect this bill as a costly, irresponsible approach 

 to a complex management question that revolves around good 

 biology, forestry, economics and politics. In doing so you 

 will save taxpayers millions of dollars, leave the 

 management to those who do it best (PL has been managing its 

 property for over 120 years) and help retain jobs and the 

 economy in the north state. 



Second, send a strong message to governmental researchers to 

 work toward the questions of real management; production of 

 a real commodity while, in this case, retention of suitable 

 wildiiife habitat. 



Thank you for the opportunity to comment. 



StQyo£/j. Kerne 

 Round Mountain, CA 

 October afi, 19<Jn 



