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The answer is, you do not have all the needed 

 information to make wise decisions. 



I am told that is why you are all here. For you to 

 learn the facts and make the best decision that will 

 positively effect the families, the children, the economy 

 and the health of the forest. 



If this bill passes, the families, the children, the 

 economy and the health of the forest will be drastically 

 damaged. 



Lets talk facts. 



Each year the Six Rivers National Forest has had a 

 net gain of over 250 million board feet more timber than 

 the year before. This net gain includes the annual 

 harvesting figures. Yet the sales program has declined to 

 an average annual cut of about 10 million feet. 



Due the many drought years there is an annual loss 

 of approximately 60 million of board feet of timber land 

 that is insect infested and dying. Very little of it will 

 be harvested. Is this good stewardship? No, it certainly 

 is not. 



The Six Rivers, Trinity and Mendocino National 

 Forests, in the years prior to being sued by the radical 

 environmental groups, generated high-quality wood chips 

 from low-grade logs. These worthless logs provided over 

 50 percent of the wood chips needed to operate the two 

 pulp mills on Humboldt Bay. Today both of these mills are 



