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Also present: Porter Ward, professional Cook, minority counsel, and Thomas Nel counsel.

Senator CHURCH. The hearing will please Mr. Bill Asplund of Wenatchee, Wash., morning.

Mr. Asplund.

STATEMENT OF WILLIAM R. ASPLUND, WENATCHEE, WASH

Mr. ASPLUND. My name is Bill Asplund, a Wash.

Thanks for holding the hearing, Senator ( to be here.

I request that my entire statement, black an ments attached be included in the record.

Senator CHURCH. Your entire statement the documents.

Mr. ASPLUND. I work with 500 members o tection Society, which is a citizens' group Washington State whose aim is to establis area in the central Cascades of Washington in the fall of 1968 to work without a plan wi Federal agencies presenting to Congress fo national recreation area with a wilderness co

We have several problems concerning m policies in the Wenatchee national forest Negating the facts of wilderness by constructi our wilderness of the national recreation pr tion of of the extensive Government logg Government checkerboard roads.

I believe I can show you facts that st Wenatchee National Forest prime use is tim

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harvest 11.5 million board feet of timber on public land nately the same amount of timber on their own land estimates that the timber receipt to the United Stat amount to $109,000, or $34,000 less than the Governme project. I strongly question the economics of that typ

ng.

7, road 2412-A is planned for a closure after loggin by motor bikes and horse travel. And, Senator, the roa here. It does not go to any lake or any ridge, but is ju d that road costs $52,000. If you will notice on the d, most of the distance of that road is on private land hey should pay a few more dollars on that.

orest and Wenatchee National Forest supervisors kne tionists had recommended in 1963 the inclusion o Creek and 8-Mile Creek drainage in the wildernes system, but they decided to build the roads anywa vation views. Some of us in Wenatchee believe that thi r jar of Wenatchee National Forest policies given to u

e following photographs and ask specifically to shov natchee National Forest has done with respect to 241

esterday, Mr. Ray, from Portland, representing a wate v, I wrote him about these roads, and I showed him these And they were interesting in terms of logging and

e photography, photo 1, bulldozers have skidded logs creek beds, and in order to cross creeks skid logs down d 3 were taken along Mountaineer Creek and the 8-Mile icts. Road 2412 is shown on the map. I have been into this area many times, climbing Mount well as using the Mountaineer Creek route to the Enhave seen this in its natural state long before the WenatForest built this road along this extremely high and

гегпарѕ the tiine nas come for the vy enat come under close scrutiny by a panel of outsi versity of Montana review of the Bitter Root strated, the Forest Service is sometimes unc because of a refusal to accept criteria other t measure its policies and performance. Senato quested the Bitter Root study, is to be commer of the problem and his initiative in dealing w devised that is asking the university to condu make recommendations-can be used just as e Washington to determine the long-term value practices on the Wenatchee National Forest.

If such a task force cannot be formed, conse State will insist on knowing the exact breakdo level of financing and the actual financing o items on the Wenatchee National Forest: 1. Timber sales.

2. Reforestation. 3. Recreation.

4. Wildlife management.

5. Range management.

6. Soil and water management. 7. Minerals and special uses.

8. Land classification and surveys.

9. Forest fire protection.

10. Construction. Maintenance of improve eral purposes.

11. Insect and disease control. 12. Land acquisition.

13. Road and trails.

Knowing these figures, we will be enabled to wisdom and efficiency of management on the W est, and to call to the attention of elected offi ficials those policies and practices that are not interest.

Mount Margaret area looking at the Rock Rabbit Lak -taken in 1966.

he time has come for the Wenatchee National Forest lose scrutiny by a panel of outside experts. As the U ontana review of the Bitter Root National Forest demo Forest Service is sometimes uncapable of self-criticis refusal to accept criteria other than its own by which policies and performance. Senator Lee Metcalf, who Bitter Root study, is to be commended for the recogniti m and his initiative in dealing with it. The approach t is asking the university to conduct the investigation an nendations can be used just as effectively in the Sta on to determine the long-term value of current manag es on the Wenatchee National Forest.

like to have someone help us in finding out the financi hee National Forest.

HURCH. Thank you very much, Mr. Asplund, for you

at you have stressed the theme that others have alread in the forest hearings, whether in actual practice th ze is observing multiple use or whether the primary use nd the other uses are relegated to various subordina this is one of the questions the committee must face an

for your testimony.

ND. I have three letters here I would like to submit fo ne is from W. A. and Helen Davis, of Carey, Idaho; tl from Linda Bliss of Seattle, and I have also one from a dent from Sweden named Ingrid Kalstrom. And sh ng whether her statement could be entered in the recor HURCH. All of these statements will be entered, spac

ND. Thank you.

and's prepared statements follows. The mateiral referre hed in the files, and will be studied by the committe

I am here today, because I am deeply disturbed a Wenatchee National Forest is doing to their manag of "Multiple Use". Many of my friends and fellow happy to hear that I was going to express my vie management practices in Mountaineer/Eight-Mile Creek area.

We in ALPS know there are many individuals i but are unwilling or afriad to speak out for many reas The Wenatchee National Forest allows and finance roads and the cutting of virgin timber in our b areas, specifically the Alpine Lakes Region. Such only serve to anger and frustrate the large conser such as the Mountaineers, North Cascade Conse Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs and the Sie National Forest employees share in this sense of logging companies frequently object to timber cu Quite recently a gentlemen (was reported to me) sa to operate a bulldozer and push a road into that be the Mountaineer Creek area all my life. They don't It for watershed." That man does not belong to A tion groups, but he feels very much like they do. have lost a great deal of wilderness because of the t the Wenatchee National Forest.

I believe that I can show you the facts about shar suggest the Wenatchee National Forest's prime use Use. As a matter of fact, the Wenatchee National F logging roads primarily for logging companies. Cons Mile/Mountaineer Creek area up the Icicle drainage District. I submit for your examination the share-co 6th of October, 1967, between the Wenatchee Nat Forest Products (since then purchased by the Pack E Gentlemen, notice on page three of the document tha necessary logging road, runs to 92.7% of $241,277 ect). This amounts to $224,047 paid by the U.S. Gove a fair share-cost, especially since Pack River own Road 2412. According to the Wenatchee National Forest Products paid only $17,251 of the project. M Wenatchee National Forest stated in a news releas (paragraph three, page 1) that Pack River plans t of timber on public lands and approximately the their own land. Mr. Wright estimates that timber re will amount to $190,000 or $34,000 less than the F the project. I would strongly question the economics

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