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sian Far East, and other places in the world as the world markets 

 have begun to deliver wood that we were not producing here. 



There was a tremendous impact on small non-industrial owners, 

 who due to the regulatory insecurities and the increase in price, 

 adopted a fire sale mentality where they went out and cut lands; 

 there has been very, very poor stewardship on a lot of that land. 

 Those are all unintended consequences. 



Also unintended would be a lot of the social consequences. We 

 have heard a little bit about it today, the unemployment growth in 

 small communities, poverty, substance abuse, family disintegration, 

 loss of resources for local government to deal with these issues, and 

 basically the creation of a lot of welfare-dependent communities 

 throughout the Pacific Northwest. This is a very expensive way to 

 implement a plan because it creates problems that draw, then, 

 more on State and Federal resources. 



I think maybe a third one that is equally important is the kind 

 of political alienation that takes place in these communities, where 

 people do not look at their government with trust anymore. As a 

 sociologist, one of the key indicators of the health of any society has 

 to do with small events. It may not seem like a big deal that a few 

 people are put out of work in a few scattered communities in the 

 Northwest, but these small events cumulate into movements, into 

 social movements. It is very important we understand that we are 

 all one national family and we look together as one national family 

 and it is not possible to simply exclude people from the process and 

 not have consequences. I think that is one of the major unintended 

 consequences. 



Mr. COOLEY. Thank you very much. Dr. Lee. 



Do you really believe that the planners or the government, the 

 people who are responsible for implementing these programs, really 

 do not understand this? Do you not think these people have more 

 farsightedness to understand the implications of when they shut 

 down the ability for sustained yield or for growth in the industry? 

 You see, I cannot understand how they could not know what was 

 going to happen when all of a sudden they just adopted a policy 

 of no cut. 



Mr. Lee. It is a matter of record that in the Option 9 plan, only 

 certain kinds of information were considered to be acceptable. So 

 the kinds of consequences that we are beginning to see now were 

 simply not on the table during the planning process. They were ex- 

 cluded. So it was not an open process with free flow of information. 

 That is why I say it is unintended. Maybe it was intended to keep 

 the information out, but certainly, they never thought through a lot 

 of the consequences. 



Mr. CoOLEY. Ms. Kupillas, you are a Commissioner in one of my 

 counties and I know how active you have been and how supportive 

 you have been in trying to do something with the administration 

 about production of wood for the people you represent in your dis- 

 trict, and I think you should be commended on that. 



Ms. Kupillas. Thank you. 



Mr. CoOLEY. What I find really strange about the President's 

 Northwest plan is it is a sort of radical departure from previous 

 policies of other administrations for the last 100 years of cutting 

 back the requirements that we had and sort of the guarantees we 



