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Testimony of 



BILL SNYDER 



Georgia-Pacific Coqx)ration 



Before the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Lands 



of the 



House of Representatives Committee on Resources 



May 21, 1996 



Oversight of the USDA Forest Service Land Management Planning Process 



Mr. Chairman, my name is Bill Snyder. I am the Chief Forester for Georgia-Pacific 

 Corporation's Martell, California operations. Georgia-Pacific is a large fully integrated wood 

 products corporation with fee timberland ownership in excess of 6 million acres in the United 

 States. The Martell portion of the fee timberland base consist of 126,000 acres of highly 

 productive Sierra Nevada timberlands , a medium sized sawmill, and a particleboard plant. The 

 timberlands owned by Georgia-Pacific in this area have been under continuous forest 

 management by the company and it predecessors for over 100 years. My 24 years of experience / 

 as a land manager has been gained exclusively in the Sierra Nevada and the forested ecosystems 

 found on the west slopes. 



Sustainable forestry is at the heart of what Georgia-Pacific does on its timberlands and 

 encourages others to do on their timberlands as well. We have supported and led the adoption of 

 forest product's industry's "Sustainable Forestry Initiative". We promoted the national Seventh 



