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ministration favors Canadian workers at the expense of American 

 jobs. 



I would like to conclude today by quoting from a letter written 

 to President Clinton by my good friend, Nadine Bailey, several 

 months ago. Nadine has spent the last four years of her life fight- 

 ing for her community of Ha5rfork. Nadine and her family have 

 been forced to move out of the town that she grew up in, the house 

 that her parents built and that she has lived in all her life, to find 

 work outside the Pacific Northwest. 



Nadine wrote, "I read a press release where you said that the 

 salvage rider is undermining the healing process that Option 9 has 

 produced. Do you actually believe this? Do you even remember the 

 workers whose wounds were not healed, whose pain and loss was 

 simply swept aside? Grants from Option 9 do not make their way 

 to unemployed loggers. Nothing I have done over the last four 

 years seems to have made a difiierence. Families are starting to 

 leave the area. For the first time in my life, I have no hope. All 

 I wanted was to keep our families together. When that hope died, 

 I guess a part of me did, too." 



On behalf of Nadine and the rest of my friends who have lost 

 their jobs, homes, businesses, and way of life to the President's 

 plan, please make the tough decisions to give reason to hope for 

 ourselves and our children. Thank you. 



[The attachments to statement of Ms. Smith may be found at end 

 of hearing.] 



Mr. Hansen. Thank you. 



Dr. Bob Lee? 



STATEMENT OF ROBERT G. LEE, PROFESSOR OF FOREST 

 RESOURCES, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON 



Mr. Lee. Mr. Chairman, members of the Subcommittee, my 

 name is Bob Lee and I currently serve as Professor of Forest Re- 

 sources at the University of Washington. My comments today re- 

 flect my professional opinion and do not reflect the College of For- 

 est Resources, University of Washington, nor any other persons or 

 institutions. 



My testimony will summarize answers to six questions contained 

 -in a 1995 socio-economic study of 72 Washington, Oregon, and Cali- 

 fornia counties in the spotted owl region. Because there have been 

 no systematic social or economic evaluations of Option 9, these 

 data, although dated, will provide essential background informa- 

 tion for looking at the accomplishments and potential contributions 

 of Option 9. 



The first question: how have wood products employment and 

 earnings been affected by the decline in the sale and harvesting of 

 Federal wood between 1988 and 1992 (the most recent data for 

 which we could get all the information)? Losses in wood products 

 employment and earnings have been greatest in the 15 rural coun- 

 ties most reliant on Federal wood. Federal wood reliant counties 

 exhibited the lowest rates of growth in total employment and em- 

 ployment earnings during this period. Job losses have continued to 

 accumulate since data were collected. 



Question two: have counties reliant on Federal wood supplies 

 faced a greater challenge in revitalizing their local economies? In- 



