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STATEMENT OF GORDON ROBINSON (41 5) 435-0582 



Supporting The Giant Sequoia Preservation Act of 1993 (H.R. 2153) 



on behalf of Sequoia Alliance- January 1 9, 1 994 



1. I am a professional forester, having received my 

 education at the University of California in Berkeley and the 

 degree of Bachelor of Science in forestry from that institution 

 in 1937. I reside at 16 Apollo Road, Tiburon, California. From 

 1939 until 1966 I was the principal forester for Southern Pacific 

 Transportation Company, 1 Market Street, San Francisco. I 

 established and managed that company's sustained yield timber 

 management plan on 730,000 acres of forest in Northern 

 California. These lands are being managed for income under 

 some of the most advanced forest practices in the industry and 

 are utilizing the best available information concerning 

 sustained timber yield and environmental impacts. From 1966 

 to the present I have been a private forestry consultant and my 

 principal client has been the Sierra Club, with whom I served as 

 Staff Forester until 1 979. I am now semi-retired. 



2. I have been asked to present my perspectives on the 

 damage to the Sequoia and Sierra National Forest ecosystems 

 from timber cutting. I have long known the Sequoia National 

 Forest. My first experience there was in 1 935, cruising timber. 

 We cruised the Freeman Grove in preparation for acquisition by 

 the United States through exchange with the Dwyer-Rucker 

 estate; the transaction which resulted in establishment of the 

 Johnsondale mill. 



I inspected portions of the Sequoia in June 1 988 in order 

 to provide comments on what was then the draft land 

 management plan. Since then I have reviewed a recent court 

 decision enjoining four timber sales because of the potential for 

 impact from the proposed clearcutting and other harvesting 

 methods. (TULARE COUNTY AUDOBON SOCIETY, et al, Plaintiffs, 



