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DonSberer 



Treasurer 



PUastrepfyto: 



Main Office 



I ) P.O. Box 989 



Saualito. CA 94966 

 Tet (415) 332-5080 

 Fix (415) 331-2722 



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 Office of the PrgMdfni Habilal Office 



[ I PC Box 340 II P O. Box 783 



El Granada, CA 94018 Mendocino. CA 95460 



Tel: (415) 726-1607 Tel; (707) 937-4145 



Fax: (415) 726-1607-3" Fax (707) 937-2617 



W. E 'Zeke' Grader. Jr. 



ExcCTjtive Dtreaor 



Nalbanitl S. Bingham 



Habuat Director 



den H. Spain 



Nonhwea Regional Direaor 



Mticb Farro 



DireCTor of Enhancement 

 Proiects 



Nonhwesl Regional Offirr 



II PC Box 11170 



Eugene. OR 97440-3370 

 Tel: (541) 689-2000 

 Fax:(541)689-2500 



DEVASTATING LOGGING RIDER IMPACTS 

 ON THE WEST COAST FISHING INDUSTRY 



Likely extinction of key Snake River ESA listed salmon populations: 



Heroic eSbrts and hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent to revive ESA listed snake river 

 Chinook in the upper Cohimbia Basin. As many as 25,000 family wage salmon-produced jobs have 

 been lost due to salmon collapses in the Columbia. Meanwhile several "section 318 sales" will 

 proceed under the rider which will wipe out much of the remnants of their historic spawning grounds: 



Froni October 13, 1995, sworn declaration of Jacqueline Wyland, Ph.D., Oiief of 

 Environmental and Technical Services EHvision, National Marine Fisheries Service, 

 Portland, OR (most relevant portions emphasized): 



"Listed Snake River M chinook salmon occur in the Grande Ronde River Historic 

 estimates for &11 chinook salmon in this river are unavailable. However, current populations 

 are below self-sustaining levels Fall chinook spawning success in the Grande Ronde River 

 probably is limited by sedimentation of spawning habitat, loss of pool habitat, and winter icing 

 of the river. . These effects are largely due to land management activities both within and 

 outade of the national forest system. Forest management in headwater areas is likely to have 

 increased peak flows and channel disturbance, degrading &I1 chinook habitat." (Pgs 8 -9) 



"Since the Snake River spring/summer chinook salmon were listed as threatened in 1992, 

 NMFS has conduaed numerous consultations with the WaOowa-Whitman National Forest. 

 One of the first formal consultations evaluated eleven timber sales in the Upper Grande Ronde 

 River watershed. The Forest Service has identified nine of those same sales as ones that 

 could be released witfa their pre-consuttation terms [under the salvage rider]. . By allowing 

 these sales to be released with their pre-consultation terms, the level of incidental taking of 



STEWARDS OF THE HSPffiRIES 



