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for joint sustained-yield operation of public and 

 private timber and for establishing federal sustained- 

 yield units whereby timber in a national forest 

 working circle could be assigned for manufacture in 

 a specified community as a means of furnishing 

 stability to communities primarily dependent on the 

 processing of national forest timber. 



Only one cooperative unit was set up, that with 

 the Simpson Timber Company in the state of Washington. 

 This proved very beneficial to at least two dependent 

 communities. 



Two or three units comprising only public 

 timber were established. As to this type of unit 

 and also the cooperative type, opposition built up 

 to even this degree of abandonment of the traditional 

 method of offering national forest timber for com 

 petitive bidding. The Forest Service decided to 

 abandon the program and the law was repealed. 



Fry: Can you tell more about the opposition? Perhaps 



describe the pressures that were applied, and on what 

 levels of forest administration? 



Granger: Timber operators who considered themselves dependent 

 on national forest timber felt they had a right to 



