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EXTENSION OF REMARKS 

 REP. GEORGE E. BROWN 

 TESTIMONY BEFORE THE 

 SUBCOMMITTEE ON SPECIALTY CROPS 

 AND NATURAL RESOURCES 



MARCH 9, 1994 



I am here before this subcommittee to say a few words on 

 behalf of the Giant Secjuoia National Preservation Act which I 

 introduced in May of last year. As I have stated before, my 

 intent in introducing this bill was to ensure that the Giant- 

 Sequoia mixed conifer ecosystem would have permanent protection 

 within a national forest preserve. It is essential that the 

 protection of this ecosystem be insured by law, and not be 

 subject to changes in the interpretation of or the adherence to 

 the National Forest Management Act that might result from a 

 change in Administrations. 



The Giant Sequoias are not only the world's largest trees, 

 they are a living part of California's environmental history, the 

 earth's oldest living things. Millions of visitors come from 

 within California, and from other areas of the country to walk 

 through the Sequoia and Redwood forests. This ecosystem is a 

 valuable and unique natural resource which will provide many more 

 economic possibilities as a healthy, intact ecosystem than it 

 will as a fragmented landscape with the scars of excessive 

 clearcutting. 



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