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fifth — what are you, Jack, holding up your hand? Oh, you wanted | 

 to comment. Go ahead. 



Mr. Shannon. One thing I neglected to do, I would like to put 

 it in the record that all members of the committee are more than 

 welcome to come out to the ranch for a couple of days, if they want 

 to play cowboy. We have a couple of those every year. 



If they want to come back to the Forest Service permit, I feel 

 very comfortable with what we are doing, both on our public lands 

 and our private land, down in Tulare County and Sequoia National 

 Forest. That is an open invitation. 



Mr. DOOLEY. Thank you. Jack. 



Mr. POMBO. If I may just comment on that, if my brothers found 

 out I was down at your ranch pla5dng cowboy, I would be in big 

 trouble. [Laughter.] 



Mr. SCHLITZ. I've got an Indian reservation right next door. I can 

 arrange for you to go play Indian. [Laughter.] 



Mr. DoOLEY. We'd better stop. 



At that, I just want to thank everybody once again. I think what 

 came out here, I think everyone has, I think, the obligation of in- 

 suring that we are going to provide the adequate protection to 

 maintain the sequoia groves, and certainly the sequoia trees. 



Hopefully, through this process and the information that we re- 

 ceived today, we will gain some guidance on how we can most effec- 

 tively respond to Congressman Brown's very good faith and I think 

 responsible effort to try to at least initiate a discussion on the man- 

 agement of the Sequoias. 



So, once again, I thank everybody for participating, and thank 

 you, Mr. Pombo. 



[Whereupon, at 3:35 p.m., the subcommittee was adjourned, to 

 reconvene subject to the call of the Chair.] 



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