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and I would ask that both of our written statements be made put of the record of this hearing. 

 Additionally, we will both be bapp^. to answer any of your questions. 



While I am not an expert on how the Preadent'f Forest Plan has afkcfed others, I am able to tcU 

 you how Mayr Bros. Company has been affected by this draconian forest plan. As I mentioned 

 above, it is not lack of raw material that forced Mayr Bros, mills to shut down. But before we get 

 to that, I want to share with you some history of our family's company: 



In 1933 two teenage brothers borrowed a horse &om a neighbor, borrowed oats from their father, 

 and went to logpng S foot pulp wood on a neighbor's backwoods. Th^ were niy &ther, Marzell 

 and my uncle. Werner. Werner passed away last year, but my father is stiD active, he comes daily 

 to the now quite miQs, hdping to cleanup and prepare them for whatever lies ahead. 



Over the years, Mayr Bros. Logging, as the company was called then, grew and became a steady 

 employer on Grays Harbor. The company bou^t its first USFS sale in 1 939, and during WW II, 

 Werner and Marzell logged Sitka Spruce for the war effort. In the early 1960*s, Mayr Bros, built 

 thdr Srst manufacturing fecQity, a chipping facility to make wood chips for paper manuftcture. In 

 1973, the company buSt a Mwmill to spedficaDy saw the high-grade whitewood logs found on the 

 Olympic Peninsula. During the late 1970's, the company bad 500 employees, two sawnulls and 

 was a major exporter of finished hunber to the Japanese maiket. 



High interest rates forced the con^any into Chapter 1 1 bankruptcy in 1984. The compaiqr 

 regrouped and emerged firom baidouptcy io 1988 a reorganized and solid company. 



