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threefold. Furthermore present logging is consistently removing the larger trees instead of 

 the smaller ones that create the fire hazard and crowded stands that stress the forest. 

 Adequate reforestation, as required by the National Forest Management Act, has failed to 

 take hold in many parts of the SNF. After spending two years reviewing SNF 

 reforestation on the ground and comparing it to other Western forests our group monitors, 

 our foresters agree that SNF reforestation is some of the least siKxessful in the Pacnfic's 

 forests. The Forest Service, by law, has no business removing forest stands, particularly 

 at great expense, and failing to renew them. 



• Salvage logging in the SNF is being abused. 



Many of the salvage sales we reviewed that were supposedly under 1,000 MBF (MBF = 

 one thousand board feet), and therefore able to qualify as non-NEPA under former 

 President Bush's salvage exclusion, pnxiuced well over a million board feet I suggest this 

 over-run practice was a frecjuent and deliberate e£fort to sldrt NEPA requirements. For 

 example, the P(xd:et Sale in the Tule River District was permitted widiout complying with 

 NEPA under the 1,000 MBF salvage sale exclusion; however, my inquiry indicates over 

 3,000 MBF was cut, including green pines. If our management agency in the Sequoia 

 National Forest cannot be honest and accountable with relatively cheap salvage sales, how 

 can we trust them to care for the invaluable giant Sequoias? As in most logging, salvage 

 sales typically remove the market-desirable big trees that are stressed and killed due to the 

 crowded understories of small trees that have grown up in the absence of historical fire. 

 By failing to diin the small trees, Sequoian salvage sales are treating symptoms rather than 

 causes of forest mortality. This self-feeding cyde is the salvage wheel of fortune for the 

 mill, not the forest or the people. 



• The Public is Being Deceived 



My complaints against commercial logging in die SNF could go on for pages. The Public 

 Forestry Foundation will gladly submit further reports on the condition of flie Sequoia 

 Forest as a result of mismanagement to committee members upon request I've 

 highlighted a few obvious abuses simply to make this point- Continuing to commercially 

 log the Sequoia National Forest is economically fraudulent and biologically reckless. 

 Logging in the SNF would be socially unacceptable with a majority of public forest owners 

 if they weren't under the delusion that SNF groves are managed like Sequoia National Park 

 groves to the north . . . with respect and dignity. 



