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Boise Cascade Corporation, but also, through their remanufacturing efforts, provide 

 thousands of jobs. Now, because of public policy, litigation, and regulation, this historic 

 wood supply has drastically changed to almost exclude federal sources from our historic log 

 supply equation. 



Boise Cascade Corporation must now attempt to replace its historic sources from elsewhere. 

 Private and federal logs are trucked to the Port of Sacramento and reloaded into railcars and 

 transported to Medford, Oregon. State of Washington timber sales have been purchased, 

 harvested, and trucked to Medford. The possibility of harvesting ponderosa pine logs in the 

 vicinity of Chiwawa, Mexico, and rail transporting these logs to Medford has been evaluated, 

 but at this point, deferred. And we have tested and made production runs of Radiata pine 

 logs harvested in New Zealand by timberland owner, Rayonier Corporation, and delivered to 

 Boise Cascade Corporation at the Port of Sacramento, California, for truck and rail shipment 

 to its sawmills in Medford, Oregon. Because western federal timber supply is hopelessly 

 gridlocked, Boise Cascade Corporation must use every avenue available to it to supply our 

 customers, sustain our mills, and employees, and dependent communities, and maintain the 

 equity of our shareholders. In this context, we have elected to manufacture all of our private 

 timber domestically and have been faced with the challenge of converting imported raw logs 

 at our western facilities. These extraordinary efforts do not fully replace the volume and 

 quality of timber denied us by removing access to historic federal resources, but will allow 

 us to continue our integrated operation for a period of time. 



As an owner of 1,340,000 acres of northwestern timberland, Boise Cascade Coiporation is 

 committed to APHIS rules which minimize the possibility of reducing foreign insects and 



