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UnKed States 

 Oep«nmeni( of 

 AgricuMure 



Forest 

 Service 



Dixie 

 National Forest 



62 North 100 East 



P.O. Box 580 



Cedar City, UT 64721-0580 



File Code: 2430 



Date: May 6, 1996 



TO PURCHASERS OF NATIONAL FOREST TIMBER SALES: 



The Dixie, Fishlake and Mano-LaSal National Forests and the North Kaibab Ranger District ol the Karbab 

 National Forest are seekir^g additional timber purchasers to assist with vegetation management projects in 

 the southern Utah/northern Arizona area Since 1 993, these Forests have lost more than to million board feet 

 of sawmiU capacity due to local mill closures. 



The Forests are experiencing differing vegetation management needs, but all require the use of commercial 

 timber sales to accomplish desired resource objectives. The Dixie and Manti-LaSal Forests are expenencmg 

 heavy outbreaks of bark beetles In old-growth spruce and scattered ponderosa pine stands. Salvage sales 

 on mese Forests are desigrted to remove beetle broods from the forest and make wood products available 

 to industry. T^e RsWake National Forest has thousands of acres of aspen stands needing regeneration. The 

 North Kaibab Ranger District has some of the most magnificent stands of ponderosa pine in (he Nation, and 

 they need thinning to promote improved Northern goshawk habitat. 



Collectively, the four Forest Servk:e units are scheduled to offer more than 63 million board feet of sawtimber 

 in the remainder of calendar year 1996. At the current time we are concerned a significant portion of this 

 volume could remain unsold. For this reason, we are reaching beyono our historic market area boundaries 

 to locate additional purchasers for our timber sales. We have asked National Forests within 500 miles of our 

 operating area to supply us with mailing lists for their timber sale bklders, and that is how we received your 

 name for this mailing. 



The volume of timber sales on the four National Forest units along with contacts for Information for the 

 remainder of calendar year 1996 are as follows: 



Forest Sen/ice Unit 



Dixie NF 

 (Cedar CifyJUT) 



FisNake NF 

 (Richfield, UT) 



Manti-LaSal NF 

 (Price. UT) 



Notth Kaibab RO 

 (Fredonia, AZ) 



Sale Offerings 



4/1/96- 12/31/96 (MMbf) 



Salvage Green Total 



15.0 9.7 24.7 



1.0 1.9 2.8 



Forest SBA 

 Percentage 



80% 



9.5 



.6 10.1 



80% 



— 25.7 25.7 



Unit Concaa 

 Person 



Barry Johnson 

 (801) 865-3725 



Ron Sanden 

 (801) 896-9233 



Glen Jackson 

 (80^ 637-2817 



Scon Nannenga 

 (520) 643-7395 



Totals: 



25.5 



63,3 



CMtaf tor tfia Land and Sanring Paop<a 



