CONTENTS 



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Hearing held on: June 24, 1993 1 



BELOW-COST TIMBER SALES 



JUNE 24, 1993 



Hon. Patrick J. Leahy, U.S. Senator from Vermont 13 



Prepared statement 14 



Hon. Thomas A. Daschle, U.S. Senator from South Dakota 1 



Hon. Larry E. Craig, U.S. Senator from Idaho 2 



Prepared statement 4 



Hon. Mitch McConnell, U.S. Senator from Kentucky, prepared statement 6 



Hon. Thad Cochran, U.S. Senator from Mississippi, prepared statement 8 



Hon. Russell Feingold, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin 16 



Hon. Max Baucus, U.S. Senator from Montana 16 



Hon. Conrad Burns, U.S. Senator from Montana, prepared statement 8 



CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES 



Hon. Judd Gregg, U.S. Senator from New Hampshire 10 



James Lyons, Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, 

 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC; accompanied by George 

 Leonard, Associate Chief, and David Hessel, Director of Timber Manage- 

 ment 18 



Michael A. Francis, director, national forests program of The Wilderness 



Society, Washington, DC 24 



James Riley, executive vice president, Intermountain Forest Industries Asso- 

 ciation, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 31 



Prepared statement 35 



APPENDIX 



Western Governors Association Resolution 93-016, June 22, 1993 53 



Letters 



Senator Craig to George Leonard 54 



Response from the Forest Service 54 



Eugene G. Clark to Senator Craig 55 



Targhee Timber Association to Senator Craig 55 



Kent Fisher to Senator Craig 56 



Shelly R. Phelps to Senator Craig 56 



Robert E. Wolf to Senator Daschle, with enclosures 57 



Posthearing questions for James Lyons 



Senator Leahy 68 



Senator Daschle 73 



Prepared material submitted by Mr. Lyons 



Appendix 1 80 



Appendix 2 88 



Appendix 3 92 



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