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Overview of Impacts Created by: 

 The Gumt Sequoia National Forest Preserve - H.R. 2153 



1. This Ittgislation Is totally unn«c«ssary b«caus« tii« Giant 

 S«quoias are now protactad by Prasidantial proclamation. 



2 . Many varietias of existing recreation activity would be 

 restricted or eliminated. 



3. Management of 28,000 acres of private and state Ismd within 

 the boundaries of HR 2153 would be greatly restricted. 

 Special use permits would be restricted. Forest health would 

 be reduced. Fuel loading would increase and permit laurger 

 wildfires. 



4 . Hunting and fishing use as practiced today would be 

 drastically reduced. 



5. Over 1 million dollars annual revenue would be lost to Tulare, 

 Kern and County of Fresno. Over 3 million dollars annually 

 would be needed to administer the direction given in the Act. 

 Over 3 million dolleurs would be spent as a one time cost to 

 implement HR 2153. 



:- 6. There are leurge personal liumem costs through lost federal emd 

 ^ private employment, lost small business income, and restricted 

 ?■ use of private lands. 



7. Giant Sequoia reproduction would be threatened because the 

 r- Forest Service could not use mechanical equipment to manage 



Giamt Sequoia groves. 



8 . Use of prescribed fire to mzmipulate vegetation would not be 

 effective and would be cost prohibitive. 



9. Timber mjmagement on the Sequoia National Forest would be 

 reduced to a level that 2 satmills would be eliminated, thus 

 adding to the present 16% Tulare County unemployment level. 



10. All grazing would be eliminated in 10 years. This action 

 would force some private land owners adjacent to the Sequoia 

 National Forest to subdivide their remches eliminating 

 important open space adjacent to the National Forest. 



11. The Sequoia National Forest Mediated Settlement signed in 1990 

 by 19 groups would be voided. 



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