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say most of them were rather critical of what was presented on 

 those pages. 



The third, deaUng with Chile, was contracted out to a Texas For- 

 est Service included several people that had been in Chile in the 

 Peace Corps and at other times, and also included some Forest 

 Service personnel that had the same experience. But again it was 

 a small group. 



When the request went out, they said we will not allow you to 

 write more than four pages of comment. We will not publish your 

 comments. We will only take that which we want. So the things 

 that you see towards the end are of that type. 



My personal objection to that, I felt this was an inappropriate 

 procedure to follow. Where it came from, I don't know. But I know 

 how I react to being told what I could or could not do in providing 

 the basic information. And the information I presented is found not 

 here but I would be pleased to provide it if there is reason to do 

 so. 



Now, what I am really concerned about is the fact we are taking 

 this information from only one part of the country. It happens to 

 be one in which I reside and naturally I have more than a passing 

 interest in it, but I am very uncomfortable with taking this kind 

 of information and appljdng it, as these regulations do, to the en- 

 tire United States. 



I notice that there are a number of Members of this committee 

 from the southern United States, and I would give you a very spe- 

 cific example of a potential risk, to the best of my knowledge, has 

 not even been considered. 



We were asked to receive Caribbean pine, wood chips from the 

 Honduras, into Oregon. Oregon was the only State to object, and 

 of course it was the only State that these wood chips at that time 

 were to come. APHIS overruled us and the chips came in anyway. 



I would point out that particular pine growing naturally through- 

 out the Caribbean and in Central America and now grown in great 

 plantations in Brazil was, until recently, considered the same as 

 your slash pine. There are about 10 species of pines, all of them 

 found either in southern United States, or on a couple in the is- 

 lands, (Puerto Rico), they are all closely related and will interbreed 

 with one another. 



So if shipments of wood chips — and they may have been done al- 

 ready, I don't know personally — are brought from that pine into the 

 South and spread out, or lumber, which is also possible, or raw logs 

 of that species, there is a very high risk of bringing in organisms 

 that could have very serious consequences on the forest of the 

 southern part of the United States. 



The second one has to do with our State, where these things are 

 brought in. There is a pine (shore pine) that goes along the coast 

 of Oregon, extends to the north and a little south down into north- 

 ern California. It meets another species. Jack pine, which goes 

 across the northern United States and southern Canada. It is asso- 

 ciated with the Virginia pine when it comes down the East Coast 

 and on into Florida where it meets another pine, known as the 

 sand pine. So you have a large horseshoe that provides a potential 

 avenue for dispersal from the West Coast and the reverse has been 

 done already by white pine blister rust. 



