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The President's response to losing these manufacturing jobs has 

 been the Northwest Economic Adjustment Initiative. Originally in- 

 tended to help displaced timber workers find jobs, the money has 

 been spent on community development, feasibility studies, and in- 

 frastructure, instead. The majority of the money allotted Siskiyou 

 County has been spent on city water and sewer extensions and a 

 new hospital. 



One of Option 9's programs to help displaced workers is known 

 as Jobs in the Woods. This program created in Siskiyou 2,775 per- 

 son days of employment in fiscal year 1994, which sounds impres- 

 sive. However, 2,775 days is only one year's employment for 11 peo- 

 ple. 



This type of government assistance program has been tried be- 

 fore. Because dislocated workers move away, training programs 

 must be implemented quickly or program officials will lose contact 

 with the dislocated workers. This is happening again. According to 

 a GAO report, Dislocated Workers: A Look Back at the Redwood 

 Employment Training Program, "Efforts to provide retraining can- 

 not sustain workers or the communities in which they live without 

 the creation of new jobs." 



According to a Region 5 Forest Service Community Coordinator, 

 "If we took $800,000 and put it into wages, the money would be 

 spent and the jobs would be over, whereas if we take the money 

 and invest it to make communities a better place to live, it is a bet- 

 ter long-range investment. That is really hard for some people to 

 swallow who are currently displaced." In other words, the people 

 most affected by the change in forest policy will be the least likely 

 to receive help. This kind of arrogance in the face of such hardship 

 and misery is unconscionable. 



As a member of the Klamath Province Advisory Committee, I 

 have been attending meetings throughout Northern California and 

 Southern Oregon for the past 14 months. As you can see by the at- 

 tached flow chart, trying to get our recommendations to the admin- 

 istration through the three or four levels of bureaucracy created by 

 the President's forest plan is nearly impossible. 



Of the 28 people on this PAC, two- thirds are agency representa- 

 tives, and there are also four tribal representatives. The head of 

 the PAC is also the head of the RIEC. Therefore, she makes rec- 

 ommendations to herself or her committee, most of whom already 

 sit on the PAC. The efforts of this redundancy were quantified by 

 a Forest Service employee who stated, "If I did not have to spend 

 so much time on this committee, I would be able to complete the 

 environmental reviews necessary to offer an additional 20 million 

 board feet of timber each year." Clearly, the President's forest plan 

 is more concerned with process than results. 



The Klamath National Forest grows 438 million board feet of 

 timber each and every year. So far this fiscal year, the Klamath 

 has sold 30 million board feet, nearly all of it due to the salvage 

 rider. Secretary Glickman, under the direction of the President, re- 

 cently rescinded authority and placed restrictions on the implemen- 

 tation of the salvage rider. This will result in a loss of timber of- 

 fered by 50 percent for the remainder of this fiscal year on the 

 Klamath. With current imports from Canada accounting for one- 

 third of U.S. consumption — that is one in three boards — this ad- 



