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diseases which could imperil the productivity of our private forests. With that concern in 

 mind, Boise Cascade Corporation has operated its imported Radiata pine project pursuant to 

 the attached Radiata pine compliance agreement. We believe this agreement provides 

 reasonable levels of assurance that log import activities will not encourage introduction of 

 pests which will further complicate the growing and harvesting of timber in the Northwest. 

 One of the major contributions to the public timber gridlock which is now destroying the 

 timber economy in the Northwest is developing federal regulations and plans which are based 

 upon inaccurate, incomplete, and poorly interpreted science. We hope that these hearings 

 will result in a regulatory process being adopted by APHIS which does not similarly gridlock 

 our opportunity to import survival levels of unmanufactured wood products by using the 

 same faulty processes already used by the federal government in attempting to regulate the 

 management of federal forests. The APHIS regulations must be based on sound, existing 

 scientific information, permit a reasonable operating environment, and once developed, be 

 rigidly and completely enforced by those whom the enforcement responsibility is delegated. 



Should the committee wish to discuss our experiences in exporting and manufacturing 

 imported unfinished wood products, we'll be pleased to share any data which we may have 

 which would lead to perfecting appropriate regulations concerning this activity. 



Please contact R. Kirk Ewart, Boise Cascade Corporation, P.O. Box 50, Boise, ID 83728 

 (208/384-6522). 



