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QUESTION 8. During your testimony before the Subconunittee, you stated 

 that "(o)ur best preliminary estimates by our scientific groups in the 

 Pacific Northwest are that the conversion of old growth forest to 

 managed stands results in small net additions of C02 to the 

 atmosphere." Could you explain, in some detail, your findings in the 

 area of carbon eibsorption in old growth versus second growth stands? 



