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The reality is that our natural landscapes are shifting from serving primarily as warehouses of 

 commercially extractable resources to being the sources of a variety of valuable environmental 

 services that are key to attracting and holding a mobile population and a diverse mix of new 

 economic activities that generate new jobs and incomes. No matter how much we may desire it, 

 no one can bring back the economy of the past era. The new jobs and incomes that are vital to the 

 region's economic future will depend more on the protection of the region's quality-of-hfe assets - 

 of which environmental amenities and services are particularly important - than on their 

 degradation. 



Respectfully submitted this 4th day of June, 1996. 



Mary Scurlock 

 Policy Analyst 

 Pacific Rivers Council 



