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The Chairman. Thank you very much, Dr. Brooks. 

 Senator Wallop, did you have a statement that you wanted to 

 make at this time? 



STATEMENT OF HON. MALCOLM WALLOP, U.S. SENATOR FROM 



WYOMING 



Senator Wallop. Mr. Chairman, I do have a statement and, in 

 order to save the time of the committee, I would like to submit it 

 for the record. I would just say for the record now that it just dis- 

 tresses the hell out of me that we set up a forest planning process 

 and then the environmental community uses it when it suits them 

 and ignores it when it troubles them. 



So the consequence is we spend a lot of money doing the forest 

 planning process and then come to a conclusion like this: to throw 

 all that away and all the knowledge gained from it in order to sat- 

 isfy a few things which you, Dr. Brooks, you have testified in the 

 opposite direction from when you worked for the Alaska Depart- 

 ment of Fish and Game. 



[The prepared statements of Senators Wallop and McClure 

 follow:] 



