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has not come to fruition under anyone's voodoo economics. When it same time 

 for the first auction, the agency only asked for $403,000. No bidders. The third 

 auction finally squeaked $138,000 out of Omak Wood Products, only after a deal 

 was cut giving a greenlight to the company to choose whether it wanted only to 

 log the green trees in units designated for helicopter logging. After accounting 

 for sale planning costs, the Forest Service v^l lose more than $244,000 by selling 

 the timber, not counting the 25 percent revenue payment to the local county, 

 general agency overhead or futxire road maintenance. 



Gifford Pinchot Na tional Forest 



The Northwest Forest Plan governs all timber sales planned on the Gifford 

 Pinchot National Forest, as well as timber sjiles on tne Olympic, Mt. 

 Baker-Snoqucilmie, and part of the Wenatchee and Okanogan National Forests. 

 To meet timber targets directed in the logging rider, the Gifford Pinchot Natiorial 

 Forest has accelerated its logging in environmentally sensitive areas. Of the 19 

 sales plaimed by the Forest this year, over two-thirds are wnthin Key Watersheds 

 — areas designated to protect ana restore aquatic ecosystems and their associated 

 spedes. In addition, me Forest has proposed logging and roadbuilding into at 

 least three roadless areas in the forest. 



3. Jammin' Timber Sale: The Jammin' Timber Sale brings the worst abuses of 

 the President's Forest Plan into one package. The 

 Forest, in preparing this sale, has taken fiul advjmtage 

 of the rider's susper\sion of environmental laws. 

 Jammin' will adversely affect water quality and riative 

 cutthroat trout habitat. The Forest Service intends to 

 log in the Little Huckleberry Mountain Roadless Area, a 

 4,000 acre roadless tract that borders a much larger 

 30,000 acre complex of unprotected waldemess. 



There is good reason that the Little Huckleberry 

 Mountain Roadless Area has not been previously 

 logged. It contains steep and unstable areas that are 

 suDject to landslides. The Little White Salmon River 

 watershed is already overcut, and the roadless area 

 provides one of the only sources of clean, sediment-free 

 water to sustain native cutthroat trout populations. The 

 uivoaded area is a wild life mecca, providing vital 

 habitat for the endangered grizzly beju-, the wolf, 

 goshawk, spotted owl, peregrine falcon, and many 

 amphibian spedes. Contact: Dave Wemtz, Northwest 

 Ecosystem Alliance, 360/671-9950. 



4. Walput Qspus: The Walput sale is an example of how the Gifford 



Pinchot nas attempted to siaestep the procedures 

 required by the President's Nortnwest Forest Plan. 

 Walput is within an Adaptive Management Area, but 

 the agency wants to cut it like the less stringently 



