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Statement of Jim Owens 



Forests, Fannily Farms, and Energy Subcommittee 



September 10, 1992 



Page 10 



I endorse Rep. Dan Hamburg's bill, and commend it to this 

 Committee for favorable consideration. As it stands before this 

 Committee, the bill would add all of Pacific Lumber Company's 

 holdings to the nearby Six Rivers National Forest. Logging would 

 continue on most of these lands, but would be controlled by a public 

 agency governed by national environmental laws which do not affect 

 private timber operators. 



I am aware that the costs of acquiring Pacific Lumber's holdings 

 are excessive in the present national economy, and have reviewed the 

 compromise Headwaters legislation recently developed by Rep. 

 Hamburg. The revised proposal, which sharply curtails the original 

 legislation to a 44,000 acre andent redwood ecological reserve along 

 watershed boundaries, has value as a comproiruse, but needs further 

 refinement in order to pass the high standards of biological credibility 

 which this Committee has set for itself, and for Congress. 



If this bill is to adequately take an ecosystem approach to forest 

 marugement, this Corrunittee would be wise to consider an extension 

 of the Headwaters Forest downstream along Salmon Creek to the 

 Humboldt Bay Natiorial Wildlife Refuge. This addition of 11,260 acres, 

 currently held by four rrujor landowners, would create a biological 



