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TESTIMONY OF RICK LUSKIN, Executive Director of ENVIRONMENT NOW. Mr. 

 Luskin is an environmental lawyer whose background includes two years with the Peace 

 Corps and employment in the U.S. Forest Service and the National Park Service as a 

 back-country ranger in Montana and California. He has also taught environmental 

 studies at the university level. 



Environment Now is a foundation dedicated to protecting, preserving, and restoring the 

 environment by influencing public opinion and promoting responsible resource 

 management 



HEREBY SUBMITTED this 9th Day of March, 1994 in Washington D.C. 



Good morning and thank you for the opportunity to testify before this committee. 

 My name is Richard Luskin and I am Executive Director of Environment Now. The 

 organization is dedicated to protecting, preserving, and restoring the environment by 

 influencing public opinion and promoting responsible resource management. 



I am here to testify on behalf on the Giant Sequoia Preservation Act (HR2153). 

 Environment Now wishes to throw as much light as possible on the debate on preserving 

 giant sequoia trees in the Sequoia National Forest. To date, our efforts, among others, 

 have included: Commissioning a professional analysis of the economic impacts 

 associated with the cessation of logging in and around the sequoia groves in Sequoia 

 National Forest, the production of a documentary video outlining the effects of the 

 logging in Sequoia National Forest, and the publication of an educational brochure to 

 underscore the jeopardy facing the giant sequoia from logging in Sequoia National 

 Forest 



