roken down on the Forest Service Information Digest (No. 18, July 23, 1970) which was the sou ion 2 supplied the breakdown which the Washington office gave them.

I would like to read the final paragraph from the statement su Brandborg in 1967, to the Public Land Law Review Commissi rately describes where to begin this change, “. . . one of [t rst goals should be to take the bureaucrats of the public agenci s, instill into the agencies the spirit of democracy and creativit limate that will enable a man to become a leader because of ski rather than because of political prowess and hale fellowship. mission may be surprised to find what talent there is in the ager how its great abilities, once the image projection and fight fo tige are done away with. As it is now, those abilities are bein person rises not on his productivity, his creativeness and integ lity to adhere to the bureaucratic line. This creates a powerfu nization that tends to thwart the democratic process and fail of the needs of the time. More and more people are becomin land and water are too vital to be handled in this manner." ion, however, made no such remommendation as this and instea pport of the commodity interests with the dominant use philos • management. Just where does a concerned public turn for wis public lands? The Subcommittee on Public Lands?

rial referred to by Miss Hicks was retained in the com

URCH. The next witness is Mr. Harry R. Merriam, from laska.

m, obviously with nearly 40 witnesses who are here going to have to continue to exhort all of our witnesses mmarize their statements, so that we can reach those we d, because there will be no more time, and I have to reach are listed. Your cooperation in this respect is requested.

I wish to make it clear at this time that I i State of Alaska, nor the Department of Fish ar My testimony concerns forest practices from Forest of Alaska.

In five minutes I cannot begin to explain or Alaska. If I were to summarize it in one sent multiple-use in the Tongass National Forest is a

The emphasis on the Tongass Forest is ti Forest Service appears more as a segment of in of the public resource.

There are over 16 million acres on the Tongas four 50-year timber sales include over 4 million for fifty-year terms. They incorporate about ha of the Tongass forest. And yet the rotation is a species on the Tongass forests.

What is going to happen at the end of 50 yea for larger sales, but there are a great number within the forest. It is impossible for sustaine practiced with this type of a sale.

There is much evidence that the inventories p I am acquainted with all of the foresters who ar pulp companies. Without exception they feel th timber on their allotment that the Forest Serv

The Forest Service is gambling with a publi impact on other resources. It has an impact o Alaska.

And I believe the Forest Service has made sev have assumed that the second location will be creased growth. They believe that present ina more available, that there will be a more favora They feel that there will be new methods by whi crease productivity of the land.

ot a good practice, but there are other considerations, omics, that causes this technique to be used.

me biologist. I have heard some rather broad stateme s of clear-cuts to game populaions.

dly there are situations where clear-cutting does ben e species; clear-cuts provide a great deal more food. e tell you the situation in Alaska, which I believe a me of the western States. Large clear-cuts produce lots hen you have snow like you do in Alaska, about 18 inc ompletely eliminates this area as a deer habitat. The d t the food. If you have a larger population of deer wh in the smaller area to winter, actually the large clearnt to the deer population. Small cuts which would prov of fringe area, which is important to deer, perhaps wo to deer in Alaska. But certainly not the large cuts we ha

day representing several commercial fish organizatio Alaska we do not know what the impact of logging is ms. As I said before, entire drainages, many of them co or salmon streams, are being cut. The Forest Service h that the burden of proof is upon the Department of Fi or the fishermen to show that cutting is damaging t

ource.

O there have been many requests which I do not belie red. In 1960 the Department of Fish and Game request ervice to set aside thirty major salmon streams until mo was obtained.

gain the Board of Fish and Game requested the Fore fer cutting on salmon drainages.

he Institute of Fisheries Research Biologists request he Forest Service defer cutting on salmon streams.

e Western Association of Game and Fish Commissione sted the Forest Service to defer cutting on salmon stream ot a single salmon stream is deferrable from cutting. go into reserves or wilderness areas. I think Mrs. Baad at.

enough money for transportation toward the e cannot even get around. I travel a good deal I take this man with me, because he does not himself. I think this is ridiculous.

The Tongass Forest has very few trails, a And yet during the past year there was not maintain what few trails we have. There is now to maintain some of the cabins. It is unbeli I say that if the forests cannot be managed true intent of the Multiple Use Act Act, if the in such a way that economics dictate poor for perhaps we should not be cutting.

I hear the term many times among forest obligation." I feel the Forest Service has an for other resources and values.

I have several examples here. I will not go shortage of time.

I thank you.

Senator CHURCH. Thank you very much. Y will be placed in the record at this point, Mr. M (The prepared statement of Mr. Merriam to his statement were retained in the committe

STATEMENT OF HARRY MERRIAM, A RESIDENT

Mr. Chairman, members of the Subcommittee on Harry Merriam; I am a resident of Petersburg, Al for 18 years and in Petersburg for the last years. I I with a major in logging engineering, from the Unive I worked in the timber industry for several years and Oregon and in Alaska as a logging engineer fro I returned to school, obtaining a degree in zoology fi in 1957. I then enrolled in the graduate school a Columbia for an additional year of wildlife studie tion as Game Biologist with the Alaska Department been employed by this organization until the present game management and research programs in the S responsibilities and personal interest have made m portion of Southeast Alaska. I have been in each

resources, each with the other, without impairment of the land, with consideration being given to the relative values of es, and not necessarily the combination of uses that will give eturn or the greatest unit output.

Region has its own interpretation of the Multiple Use Law iple Use Management Guide for the Alaska Region." It conta eresting statements. Section 331 reads:

Decision. It is the decision of the Regional Forester that For -ment of the National Forests in Alaska will attempt to m ure overall needs for timber, forage, water, recreation, and wi ned yield basis. It is expected that this goal can be met throu rried on after careful multiple use zoning and attention to coor ents.

be necessary after Ranger District multiple use planning is co certain that zoning to provide needed amounts of recreati and wildlife does not restrict timber harvest to the degree th alculated allowable annual harvest cannot be met. If a confl it will be necessary to make adjustments in these Regional ma to provide a decision as to which of the five renewable resour mpromised and not completely met.

nt implies that allowable cuts will be met in Alaska even at t

- resources.

Alaska timber receives first consideration and other resour what is left over. Many foresters in Alaska do not approve ram; however, commitments made to the timber industry ha of the commercial timber and the forester has little leeway mands of other resource values. One of the major problems resul term timber sales which include a major portion of the accessib ber in Southeast Alaska. In each case, few, if any, areas with reserved for other resource values. Many areas of outstandin nd recreation values have been recommended by the public a utting. This is difficult for the forester to accomplish as a give er has been promised and for each area deleted from the sale st be obtained elsewhere. This is not easy to do. Even though th reserves the right to delete a given volume of timber from eac resource use, to date I know of no instances where this preroga mplemented. One problem is the annual allowable cut is base which is presently inaccessible or economically infeasible to cu reater pressure on presently available timber.

ily concerned with recreation, aesthetic, wildlife and fisherie explain how the present policies of forest management in Alaska

es.

osed to the technique of clearcutting in Alaska. If done properly nstance improve range for wildlife and it encourages Sitka spruce hich is the most valuable timber species in Southeast Alaska