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Federal Land Management and the Future of Salmon 

 and Aquatic Biodiversity in the Pacific Northwest 



Christopher A. Frisseil 



Oak Creek Laboratory of Biology 



Department of Fisheries and Wildlife 



104 Nash Hall 



Oregon State University 



Corvallis, Oregon 97331 



Introduction 



The following text documents and elaborates upon oral testimony presented 1 1 

 March 1993 before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on National 

 Parks and Public Lands, Washington, D.C. My testimony concerns the role of federal 

 land management in the decline and future fate of the Pacific salmon and other native 

 aquatic species of the Pacific Coast. 



Due to the general and interdisciplinary nature of this subject, I could refer to 

 a very large number of scientific citations for support. For clarity and brevity, I cite 

 references sparingly in this testimony. Extensive literature citation and more detailed 

 discussions occur within the general sources cited herein (copies attached). In this 

 text I necessarily generalize about the overall context and patterns of salmon declines 

 and the requirements for recovery, deferring detailed discussion of the physical and 

 biological processes causing these phenomena to the cited sources. The best way to 

 illustrate these processes is with photographs; I would be happy to make a slide 

 presentation at a later time at the request of members or committee staff. 



Resume and Qualifications 



As a Research Ecologist on the faculty of Oregon State University since 1 985, 

 and earlier as a graduate student, I have conducted studies of the effects of human 

 land uses on stream habitat and fish populations, and the development of appropriate 

 conservation strategies and policies for salmon and other native fishes. I earned Ph.D. 

 and M.S. degrees in fisheries science from Oregon State University, and my doctoral 

 dissertation and master's thesis both concern the cumulative effects of logging and 



