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I know of road locaters who laid out logging roads away from 

 salmon streams to protect those streams, only to have the logger 

 phone the Regional Forester to have the field decision overruled 

 because it caused the logger unwarranted expense. 



I sat in a staff meeting in this very town and heard a forest su- 

 pervisor explain why a logger, who had illegally dumped a number 

 of trees in a salmon stream, did not have to remove those trees for 

 several weeks because of unwarranted expense to the logger. 



I know that the Regional Office is aware that the pulp companies 

 had established phony independent logging companies in order to 

 bid on sales established specifically for the independent program. 

 These phony companies had no equipment, they had no history of 

 logging, and they were pure paper companies financed by the mills. 

 The Forest Service knew this, and they still awarded the sales to 

 them. 



I have sat in a staff meeting where the Regional Forester said 

 that to have a logger enter a water shed several times to log would 

 create unwarranted expense; therefore, the logger should be al- 

 lowed to take all of the trees at the first entry. Prince of Wales 

 Island carries the legacy of that policy. 



I could go on but I see my time is out. All I can say is that we 

 hoped, that ANILCA and the Tongass Management Plan would 

 bring a new fresh breath of air to the Tongass Forest and it failed 

 to do that and we think the Congress must act again. 



Thank you. 



Senator Wirth. Thank you very much, Mr. Metcalf. 



[The prepared statement of Mr. Metcalf follows, attachments re- 

 tained in subcommittee files.] 



