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Hearing held March 30, 1993 1 



Member statements: 



Bruce Vento 1 



Robert F. Smith 2 



Peter A. DeFazio 3 



Larry LaRocco 4 



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Hon. Ron Wyden, a U.S. Representative from the State of Oregon 5 



Panel consisting of: 



F. Dale Robertson, Chief, Forest Service, Department of the Interior 12 



Michael Penfold, Assistant Director for Lands and Renewable Resources, 

 Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Department of the Interior, ac- 

 companied by Ed Shepard, BLM Forester 16 



Joyce N. Fleischman, Deputy Inspector General, Department of the Inte- 

 rior 22 



Panel consisting of: 



R. Neil Sampson, Executive Vice President, American Forests, Washing- 

 ton, DC 44 



Gregory H. Aplet, Forest Ecologist, The Wilderness Society, Washington, 

 DC 52 



Martin Jack Desmond, Director, Northwest Reforestation Contractors As- 

 sociation, Eugene, OR 56 



Frank Gladics, Vice President, Western Forest Industries Association, 



Portland, OR 74 



APPENDIX 



MARCH 30, 1993 



Additional material submitted for the hearing record from: 



Hon. Pete Stark, a U.S. Representative from the State of California: 



Dear Colleague dated March 22, 1993 79 



Hon. Gerry E. Studds, a U.S. Representative from the State of Massachu- 

 setts: Dear Colleague dated March 22, 1993 80 



Western Forest Industries Association, Portland, OR: Letter to Chairman 

 Vento dated April 1, 1993, enclosing excerpts from Forest Statistics 

 of the United States, 1987, from Frank Gladics, Vice President 81 



(III) 



