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Every one of the services listed will have cumulative damaging effects on the social 

 structTirc and economics of Jackson Coant>'. When timber revenues decline, social systems 

 decline, family wage jobs decline, crime rises and criminal justice s>'stems are reduced. 



Another impact of the dollars allocated to address problems created by the Presidents 

 Forest Plan on Jnckson county and other counties is the JOBS IN THE WOODS program. 

 As a Board Member of the Job Council that administers the program funds, I have had a 

 direct interest in implementation and continuation of this program. The program is 

 successful for the sLx participants who are employed currently as a result of training in this 

 program. If this was intended to address the problem with dislocated wood products 

 workers, there arc by now thousands of workers, formerly employed by the industry in 

 family wage jobs, no longer employed, and not affected by this program. The Jobs in the 

 Woods will not make up for lost industry jobs. The problems being solved by the Rogue 

 Institute of £coIog>' and Economy in helping the forest service change antiquated business 

 and contracting policies, will help future success of this limited program. In the second 

 phase. The Rogue Institute will help with apprentiship training programs and creating 

 private-public partnerships that bundle projects to create longer term projects for workers. 

 This will improve the prospects for success. The addendum in the form of a 

 memorandum from the Job Council shows that the program has six people entering 

 employment with the cost of S6,308 per person in 1995 and 14 in the 1996 program at 

 S6857 per participant. I support continuation of this program as one small component of 

 training for the Job Council programs that give preference for dislocated timber workers. I 

 do not support characterizing this program as having a major impact on displaced timber 

 workers. To that end, I emphatically support maintaining a timber sale program from 

 federal lands which has multiple benefits in high-wage manufacturing jobs, support for 

 social systems and county services, creation of a product desirable in world markets and in 

 addition creating a healthier forest under new forcstr>' practices. 



Because the timber sale program from federal lands has been severely restricted by the 

 Presidents Forest Flan interpretation and has been subject to appeab, court actions, layers 

 of administrative, prescriptive regulation, political positioning by national interest groups 

 and dela} s, therefore I also support transfer of the O <& C lands to the State of Oregon, 



