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statement, which I hope will be included i Chairman.

But I would like to document a case in W the problems we have with clear-cut which i River, Wyoming Circle on the Shoshone, wh

In order to do this we have to go back i the 1960 Timber Management Plan on this there is an allowable cut in this district o And it outlines the objectives of the Timbe so on. And it also says that it shall be mana year location.

And it further says and this is as of 15 dustry capacity will be increased to utilize this will be done by offering timber sales in tion as will encourage industry expansion.

And it also says that:

The forest development road system is inadequat industry. Since all logs must be transported from th roads on this system will receive high priority in pl construction.

The necessary road system to get the timber fr will be planned and constructed well in advance of Now, we turn to the Timber Management ing Circle, 1963, and in the Summary of Plans, we read:

Timber harvesting for the past ten years avera year. This amounted to 85 percent of the annual board feet. The heaviest cut was during the pas better than 12 million board feet or an average of 1 cut. This increase of cut was due to the establis would utilize the allowable cut. The current indus allowable cut objectives.

And then at page 23, which discusses sales ent there is more than adequate milling capa allowable cut for sawtimber size material." O cutting approximately 20 million per year.

e sales, and also withdrew some that had been put u or sale. And of course this raised great hue and cry. ng in Dubois in 1969, in April of 1969, he said he ha llowable cut from approximately 17 million board fe 5 million in 1969, and announced that that new timb - probably reveal further reduction, and estimated e neighborhood of 2 million board feet.

rse this great hue and cry then went up even more. An g's Governor Stanley K. Hathaway got into the ac d the bureaucratic methods which could so harm suc nomic entity as the lumber industry.

g was said about the damage done to the land resourc ses which have been foreclosed for many years.

ened on the ground? Today, there are clear-cut block acres. There are a dozen or more blocks of 1,200 acres ndreds and hundreds of acres on which there is no re ng, some of them dating back 20 years.

ng went from streamside to timberline. Some of it, a e was heard to observe, "looked like it had been bombed. have slipped and erosion has increased.

ng went indiscriminately through some of the best ell West. The roads which brought unlimited access to the ive hunter have all but eliminated whole herds of elk. In untry, tourism, hunting, and fishing are as important to omy as the timber industry.

on Pass, on the Teton Forest, the woods were also strip in, graveled roads brought trailer homes into areas that -wilderness just 3 years ago. The head of Fish Creek was be one of the choicest elk hunting territories in Wyoming Service and the timber industry are wont to point out g opens up forests and creates better elk habitat. That y hold true in some few areas where timber stands are extensive as to be almost impenetrable. But in most of is is not true-the timber does not grow that well. And f Fish Creek it was anything but true. The long, open g parks, and the open stream valleys made for conditions eal for elk and moose.

the Wind River Work Circle and the Shoshone N reexamination and reevaluation of timber inven for the forest environment. This amendment red programed for cut annually from 3,030 acres to 2 multiple use management situation and decisions. yield from 217 acres in this area is 1,767,000 boa operable for timber harvest is reduced because of rocky areas, protection of critical watersheds, sc and requirements for wildlife coverage.

These were exactly the criteria that we some years.

Mr. Chairman, here is an exemplary de sponsible Forest Service people in recogni values in the forests besides timber. Sadly, t area had been timber "mined" as the Bolle it. Nevertheless, we are grateful to Ranger John Lavin for standing by their conviction old Wadley had to pay the price for exceller service. One week after the announcement made, he was given notice, or he was notified ferred to manage a Job Corps camp at Cha was railroaded. The Forest Service says other And I understand that Senator Hansen record the answer to me of a letter from Nordwall before he retired.

Senator CHURCH. He has requested that, the record following your testimony.

Mr. BELL. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I think this is good because it also ind perfidy which goes on in the Forest Servic man has done a good job, he gets railroad up. I believe this, and so do many other peop elsewhere.

We think that the sustained yield princip completely ignored. The Dubois economy

reasons and a use solely for fulfillment of the Fores in a neatly drawn 10-year management plan, or sim stified by the demands of a lumbering operation dis in size to the timber resource available.

Mr. Chairman.

RCH. Thank you, Mr. Bell.

ze in the record at this point the letter which you re r. D. S. Nordwall, regional forester. referred to follows:)

BELL,

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,

r Coordinating Council, Inc.,

FOREST SERVICE,

Denver, Col., June 5, 1970.

was shocked and frankly deeply disappointed in your letter of › reassignment of Harold Wadley.

time to uncover the real facts, your response would have been ther than the critical side. Now to enlighten you. As you probld served two hitches with the Marine Corps, the last one in he was seriously injured. Harold's dedication to his country young men in dedication to their country has led him to develop n the Job Corps program. Because of that expressed interest, occurred at the Pine Ridge Center, we inquired of Wadley 1 be interested in it. It was a completely free choice, and Harold ccepted it.

ires and ours in your context is a disservice to Wadley, to the nd perhaps more importantly to the generally fine stature you r honesty and fair play. I deeply regret having to have to write ein but felt you were entitled to be set straight on the facts. ies of this letter to the group indicated in your letter to me.

D. S. NORDWALL,
Regional Forester.

URCH. You are the editor of the High Country News? es, sir.

URCH. That paper has been highly recommended by of mine in Idaho. I want you to know that we have usiastic subscribers in my State.

hearings. We have been asking for such hearings fo own Senator Gale McGee. Senator McGee has been ject of clear-cutting in our high, relatively-dry fores go on the ground and see what many of us had b cutting as it was being practiced on most of our W mistake. At first, he was dubious, as many people ar which we were making. But it did not take many sl firm believer and a staunch ally.

There are many areas of public land management today. Among them would be antiquated mining laws, quate reclamation laws for putting right those land of adequate and comprehensive land-use planning, impact of clear-cut timbering as it has been recentl forests. For reasons of time, I wish to restrict my rem I wish to make it clear from the outset that I am planned, sustained-yield harvest of timber from tho for production of wood products. However, I must more by saying there are some small areas (in re national forests) included within wilderness areas, would better serve the long-range interests of all our uncut forests.

Certainly, there must be vast areas across our wes cut and now stand idle that are better suited for few de facto wilderness areas we have left for our thousands of acres in Wyoming which are supposed production cycle but which show little or no regr valuable to lie idle.

I realize that any statement of policy which inclu suited for production of wood products" is sure to e least five years, we have been saying that the lod elevation, on steep slopes and unstable soils, and f were not suited for wood production. We asked in go had been done to give a solid basis for the use of that area. To no avail. We asked if the economic costs harvesting were not out of line with the values receiv We were told that the roads were built not only for for recreational access. When we objected that re needed in many of these areas, and furthermore, ther opportunity left in the areas where timbering had be the need would develop.

In other words, our forests have been subjected to sion of other values which in the long run may be f and our well-being.