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The bill calls for scientific research within the preserve, 

 providing a "living laboratory" for use by scientists from the 

 Forest Service emd other organizations. As Chairman of the House 

 Science Committee, I am especially interested in better 

 utilization of science in the development and implementation of 

 land management . Obtaining information on a species as long- 

 lived as the Giant Sequoia represents a unique scientific 

 challenge. 



I know that there is concern about the loss of jobs that 

 will result from the ban on commercial timber harvesting. I do 

 not like to see the loss of even one job. For this reason, I 

 have made provisions in the bill for eumual payments to local 

 communities and for the estadslishment of job re-training, 

 technical assistamce, omd loans and greuits to help affected 

 communities diversify their economies. 



I should point out that if we do nothing with this there 

 will be timber job losses. There is evidence that timber removal 

 from the Sequoia National Forest over the past decade has 

 exceeded sustaineible rates. This pattern of overcutting will 

 result in not only loss of jobs in the mills, but in the 

 degradation of a valuable recreational resource. Ironically, 

 allowing the current situation to continue will foreclose future 

 diversification options to research and tourism. I believe that 

 this bill will ultimately protect jobs as well as the forest. 



Some of my colleagues from Califomian are in opposition to 

 this bill in its current form. They feel that this legislation 

 is imnecessary and that the loss of timber- industiry jobs in their 



