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several of which are included as part of the area covered under the President's Forest 

 Plan. About 90% of the raw materials we need to operate our mill is supplied from the 

 national forests in northern California. Our main source of logs has been the Klamath 

 National Forest. 



n. The Klamath National Forest and Ui-Ridge's Timber Supply 



Throughout the 1970's and 1980's, the Klamath National Forest annually sold between 

 200 and 250 million board feet (MMBF) of saw timber to companies like ours. It was 

 with great disappointment thai we found the forest was slated to sell about 40 to 50 

 MMBF each year under the President's Forest Plan. Despite recent pronouncements by 

 the Administration that the President's Forest Plan had broken the grid-lock and things are 

 now moving, it frankly disappoints me to tell you where the Forest Service is heading. 

 Since 1993, when the President's plan for the economic destruction of the forest products 

 industry was announced, the Klamath National Forest has been moving backwards. In 

 1993. the Klamath National Forest sold 32 MMBF. In 1994, the Klamath National Forest 

 sold 23.8 MMBF. In 1995, it sold only 25.6 MMBF; and this year, now with more than 

 three quarters of the year over, it has sold only 27. 1 MMBF. While the raw data may look 

 like things are improving, the detailed data is quite disturbing. 



Most national forests usually sell a mix of saw timber and non-saw timber products. In a 

 typical year, 75 to 80 percent or more of what the Klamath National Forest would offer 

 was sawoimber. Each year, we have seen the ratio of sawtimber to non-sawtimber slip. 



