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October 14, 1993 



Honorable Charles Rose 



Member of Congress 



2230 Rayburn House Office Building 



Washington, D.C. 20515 



RE: House Resolution 2866 (Hamburg/ Stark) - Oppose 



Dear Congressman Rose: 



Rural communities in the Pacific Northwest are facing 

 greater economic hardship than at any other point in their 

 history. The rural economy, largely dependent upon privately 

 owned, natural resource-based industries such as agriculture and 

 timber, is reeling from the combined effects of the lingering 

 recession and ever more restrictive timber harvest policy. 



HR 2866, which authorizes the acquisition of 44,000 acres of 

 commercial forest by the federal government, will add to the 

 already high unemployment levels on California's rural north 

 coast. The land in question is currently being managed to 

 produce quality wood products while providing, and even 

 enhancing, habitat for fish and wildlife. To take this resource 

 out of private ownership is wrong and merits your OPPOSITION. 



Our federal government should not spend hundreds of millions 

 of dollars for forest acquisitions in northern California where 

 there are already vast acres of land in public ownership, 

 off-limits to any timber harvesting. 



As a State Senator representing the First Senate District 

 which encompasses thousands of acres of publicly-owned 

 forestland, I implore you to vote against further acquisition and 

 the consequential losses to the state and county tax base. 



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