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will be things that will be provided. Take it out of the hands of the 

 board. 



Mr. Rose. Yes. 



Mr. Boyd. I think there is every reason for this committee to 

 take this legislation and word it in such a way that you assure that 

 there will be hunting, fishing, that there will be development, like 

 the Ponderosa, for instance, if you spend time up there, there is a 

 lodge that could be a good destination point, so that when people — 

 there is a lot of overflow from the Sequoia and the Kings Canyon, 

 and there are people that need to have places to go, and the Se- 

 quoia National Forest should be a destination for them, and that 

 could be put into the bill, and that should be something that is 

 built in specifically, the recreation opportunities, because I think 

 that those recreation opportunities also go a long way to creating 

 jobs, and that was another thing that was expressed today by the 

 Representatives, that there would be a loss of jobs in this transi- 

 tion. 



Really, Congressman Farr, he was at the crux of it when he 

 talked about the transition from timber to more recreation, because 

 you can create a lot more jobs if you are putting people into cabins 

 and you are bringing people up in their minivans with their fami- 

 lies up into the Sequoia National Forest to see the trees. 



Mr. Rose. All right. Thank you, Mr. Boyd. 



Mr. Boyd. I would just like to conclude, Mr. Chairman, by saying 

 that it is my hope that in the future I can spend a lot more time 

 concerning the sequoias with my son in the campground than I do 

 in the courtroom. 



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

 of the hearing.] 



Mr. Rose. I understand, and we have Members putting in bills 

 to make other Members' districts into different kinds of preserves 

 and wilderness areas, and so one Member who had such a bill filed 

 by a Member who represents part of Msmhattan introduced a bill 

 to make her part of Manhattan a wilderness area. [Laughter.] 



We need to find some new negotiators or something. But thank 

 you, Mr. Boyd. 



Are there any questions? 



[No response.] 



Mr. Rose. Next, Mr. Wolf. 



STATEMENT OF ROBERT E. WOLF, FORESTER, ST. LEONARD, 



MD 



Mr. Wolf. Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee, as 

 a forester, it was my good fortune to help create some of the major 

 forest laws, the Wilderness Act, the Resource Planning Act of 1974, 

 and the National Forest Management Act of 1976. 



In fact, I was just reflecting that Speaker Foley, Senator Bump- 

 ers, Chairman Leahy, Senator Hatfield, Congressman Brown, and 

 I, are the last people left who worked on the development of the 

 National Forest Management Act. 



While I agreed with Mr. Brown on many provisions of that bill 

 as we worked on it, there were some that he and I disagreed on. 

 And so I am delighted to be able to support in principle the concept 

 of his sequoia bill. 



