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Statement of Jim Owens 



Forests, Family Farms, and Energy Subcommittee 



September 10, 1992 



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corridor running from the mountaii\s to the sea. It would provide 

 habitat for Roosevelt elk, black brant, replacement habitat for the 

 marbled murrelet, and the opportimity to develop a wild salmon 

 reserve. 



Restoration activities in the Salmon Creek watershed would 

 provide job opportunities for the hard-working communities adjacent 

 to Humboldt Bay, and a renewed fishery in lower Humboldt Bay covild 

 bolster a fishing fleet and recreafional fishery which is now scattered 

 north and south, since commercial salmon fishing is banned along the 

 Northcoast due to the scarcity of this once abundant resource. 



Logging in the proposed Headwaters Forest will not stop with 

 this bill. In fact, the people of Humboldt Bay will be well served by 

 timber-maiuigers who do not ship over 10 percent of their logs 

 overseas, exporting jobs and livelihoods along with the raw materials 

 of the region. Local communities will benefit from the receipts sent to 

 the U.S. Treasury, and returned to the communities in payments for 

 schoob and county roads. 



Finally, this is an opportunity for Congress to enact legislation 

 which provides a win-win sitviation for the forests, and for the people 

 living with the forests. Protecting these last few groves of privately 



