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In 1995. less than half the Forest Service volume sold in the state of Califoniia was 

 sawtimber. Companies like ours cannot survive when the Forest Service sells non-saw 

 timber material to meet its targets. With the implementation of the President's Forest 

 Plan, we have seen a steady decline in the federal timber available to our company, as well 

 as the share of sawtimber which is offered. In March of 1993, a month before the 

 President came to Portland, Oregon for his Forest Conference, our company held 62 

 MMBF of timber under contraa. That was down from 77 MMBF of volume we held 

 under contract in 1 99 1 . As of March 31,1 996, we held only 2 8 MMBF of volume under 

 contraa. To maintain a timber supply, our company now purchases timber as fer away as 

 the El Dorado National Forest, a distance of more than 300 miles from our mill. Yet as T 

 just said, our very life blood - federal timber under contract- continues to shrink. These 

 contracts are crucial to our ability to secure the lending we need to modernize our mills. 



nL The Clinton Forest Plan - A Trail of Broken Promises 



A. The Administration Has Ignored Its Promise (0 Sell Timber 



When President Clinton announced that Option Nine would be implemented during a July 

 1, 1993 press conference, he promised the Forest Service and the BLM would sell 1.2 

 billion board feet of timber per year. By the time the final plan was published, the 

 Administration had reduced the planned goal to 1 .053 billion board feet. Thus, the 

 Administration dropped 12% off its promised volume before we even got started. As the 

 following table shows, the Clinton Administration has completely failed to even keep its 

 reduced promise. 



