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of their timberland holdings as a result of the imposition of Option 

 9. 



Recent decisions by the Clinton administration have been no bet- 

 ter. On the Klamath National Forest, we have a long history of for- 

 est fires. The new layers of bureaucracy seem to have been de- 

 signed to slow down the salvage of dead and dying timber. We have 

 a large fire area called the Dillon Creek area on the Klamath, 

 which has been mentioned before, and it is in dire need of salvage. 

 The various agencies worked for nearly two years to get the Dillon 

 sale ready. 



Up until last week, we thought we would finally see some 20 mil- 

 lion board feet offered for sale, but then the administration struck 

 yet once again when Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman an- 

 nounced his new salvage policy. Now we do not know if we will 

 ever see the timber sold. 



I have spoken about the problems as I see them, and in closing, 

 I would like to urge you to take some steps to help out the situa- 

 tion. They include, firstly, to extend the current salvage law or re- 

 place it with a new piece of legislation from Senator Craig of Idaho. 



Number two, curb the urge to micromanage your resource profes- 

 sionals who are out in the field. Let them take care of the forest, 

 and that definitely includes harvesting trees while they still have 

 value. 



And lastly, this whole forest plan has been awfully tough on 

 small businesses like mine. It is more than time to follow through 

 on the promises that were made to address those problems and the 

 two best ways of accomplishing that are to sell more timber and 

 sell it before it rots and loses its value and to increase the small 

 business timber sale share to help compensate for the dispropor- 

 tionate amount of pain that has been visited on firms like mine as 

 a result of President Clinton's forest plan. 



Thank you for this opportunity to testify. I will be happy to an- 

 swer any questions when the opportunity comes. 



[The statement of Mr. Bendix may be found at end of hearing.] 



Mr. COOLEY. Thank you, Mr. Bendix. I was hopeful that the for- 

 est salvage program would accomplish what you have mentioned, 

 but we have had some problems. 



Ms. Phillips? 



STATEMENT OF BONNIE PHILLIPS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, 

 PILCHUCK AUDUBON SOCIETY 



Ms. Phillips. Thank you. My name is Bonnie Phillips and I am 

 Executive Director of the Pilchuck Audubon Society in Snohomish 

 County and that is in Washington State. I started working for my 

 Audubon Chapter six months ago after about 15 years of volunteer 

 work. 



For the past decade, protecting ancient forests has been a very 

 high conservation priority for our 1,500 members. We are a strong 

 community organization and we believe in cooperative relations as 

 the cornerstone of our programs. We are proud of the many pro- 

 grams on forest issues that we do jointly with the U.S. Forest Serv- 

 ice. 



However, sometimes, litigation has been necessary when we find 

 Federal agencies in violation of environmental laws, violations 



