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little was done then to safeguard this world heritage, and we know 

 now that most of the sequoias are not secure. The present regula- 

 tions and even Presidential proclamations can be changed. 



Only Congress can provide a final, secure solution, and we urge 

 you to do that. Thank you very much. 



[The prepared statement of Mr. McCloskey appears at the con- 

 clusion of the hearing.] 



Mr. Rose. Thank you very much. 



All of the statements of all of the witnesses today will be printed 

 in full in the record. 



Thank you, Mr. McCloskey. 



Mr. McCloskey. Mr. Chairman, may I point out that Mr. Litton 

 did not intend to be a witness, but he is available for questions or 

 to assist me should you want to do that. 



Mr. Rose. Thank you very much. ^ 



[The prepared statement of Mr. Litton appears at the conclusion 

 of the hearing.] 



Mr. Rose. Mr. Kirk Boyd of Boyd, Huffman & Williams of San 

 Francisco. 



STATEMENT OF KIRK BOYD, ATTORNEY, BOYD, HUFFMAN & 



WILLIAMS 



Mr. Boyd. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 



I am going to heed your request that we move quickly, and I am 

 not even going to look at any of the remarks that I have submitted. 

 I understand that they are in the record. 



Mr. Rose. They will be in the record. 



Mr. Boyd. What I primarily would like to do is to address some 

 of the questions that have come up today, in particular with the 

 members. 



Our law firm has represented the various environmental groups 

 in the lawsuits in the Sequoia National Forest that have come up 

 in the eastern district of California. Contrary to the way that they 

 have been portrayed, we have won, and there is now a preliminary 

 injunction that is in effect at Sequoia National Forest until they go 

 back and do some supplemental environmental impact statements 

 to consider new scientific information. 



That new scientific information is here in a booklet that has been 

 talked about a lot, the CASPO report. In that report, they went 

 and — this was an interagency group of both State ajid Federal rep- 

 resentatives, including Forest Service representatives. They did a 

 thorough scientific analysis in the Sierra Nevada, including the Se- 

 quoia National Forest, and they concluded that trees over 30 inches 

 in diameter should not be cut. 



The reason that they concluded this is because they said that 

 there has been a top-down approach to logging for a long period of 

 time in the Sequoia to where a lot of the old growth has been re- 

 moved, and there need to be preservation steps taken. 



That is exactly what Congressman Brown's bill will do. It will 

 take the preservation steps that are necessary to preserve what is 

 left, the remnants of the large trees. That is really what is at stake 

 here. People talk about various approaches, but the real question 

 is whether or not some of the large trees are going to be preserved 

 at this point. 



