a land ethics that demands good forestry p and willing to spend money to reclaim vast and properly silviculturally treat our high land.

Now, we have heard from the good Sen can happen if we do not do these things.

Now, sir, I am an alarmist. We are facing I read that we are going to have to increas are already cutting, 7 million board feet or cent by 1972. This strikes fear into my he strikes fear into the hearts of a great many must try to produce this timber.

And, sir, the people on the ground out the wishes, because they recognized that if the to try to overcut their forest, and do harm other values, that we the people must carry must make it known.

I would urge that the Congress not allo be placed upon our forests. They are finite. finite, and stretched beyond that ability th Thank you, Senator Church.

Senator CHURCH. Thank you, Mr. Ga

statement.

If just enough people feel as strongly as numbers are growing-the forests will be sav Senator Metcalf?

Senator METCALF. Mr. Chairman, I have no Mr. Garland has, I assure you, severely tory. He has accommodated the committee. Senator CHURCH. We will place Mr. Gar in the record at this point.

(The prepared statement of Mr. Garland a

kill the spruce budworm. Further, that 150 men could be emp ing in the valley and that this kind of income might con ome people were, however, skeptical and others of us obj ctions were false and misleading and that the timber would

o leaving the Forest Service in 1961 I composed a paper and t to the supervisor of the Helena National Forest in which the vere predicted. "I think that time will prove this, that the Lin ot produce 142 million board feet of timber every year. Mos arth timber people agree that 150 million feet of real honest say strip this district in any ten year period."

coln, Montana had five sawmills. In 1971 there is not a sawmill nd if local residents want to buy lumber they must travel 165 m Missoula to do so. Why then were some of us able to predict ect of the logging plans of the Forest Service in 1961 and yet b go unheeded for ten years? The problems presented here and ese questions, I believe, are not just local problems but are pertin national forest system and its management. The first tragedy be the timber inventory plan for the national forests was comple . On this subject in 1961 in my paper to the supervisor of the Hel st is stated, "The Forest Service has spent a lot of time and n Imber inventory plan, a vast system of maps which are mos n a practical point. The maps cannot be used in timber work ber is not where the maps say that it is nor is the timber there hat it (the maps) show it to be."

on the economy of western Montana was far reaching indeed. A grossly incorrect and ineptly done timber inventory plan, every n ontana doubled its head saw capacity in anticipation of receivi at was claimed by the Forest Service, yet in reality the timi ere either in quality or quantity. I have in my possession a pa by a prominent banker in Missoula to substantiate the doubli ity following the timber inventory release. As a further resu appropriated millions of dollars for new ranger stations, acce ive bridges and a myriad number of other items based on t at the timber products as stated would be forthcoming. The tru hat the timber does not exist in sufficient amounts to reclaim t ment on many timber sales.

y has not stopped. As a result of the timber inventory, this natio orest Service to produce the timber claimed. Then from the pressu the Forest Service and from the pressure within the agency, man es have been made. Highly specified roads that start at no pa and go to no place in particular lace through our mountains cana. As the roading and clearcutting climbed ever higher on th of our mountains and into the alpine valleys, the watershed suffere 'here is much soil erosion and the beauty of the mountains has bee

to agree by contract to build the road system. As road builder and the first equipment he purchased Therefore, since few loggers could afford two set roads with and one to log with, he wound up trying equipment. This means that giant bulldozers with 1 necessary to build roads on steep rocky mountain logs off the mountains to the awaiting logging tru an area was logged with these awkward machines, up to 80 percent, there was very little young or old Therefore, the only feasible way was simply to bull call it a clear cut and touch a match to it in the process a future crop of timber that already reach As a side product to this procedure, some of our m forest fires of recent years have resulted from f caused disaster areas into the adjacent forest. The caused fires, to my knowledge, has never been su timber sale if indeed there was a profit, as fire figh priation from congress.

In my paper to the forest supervisor in 1961 I w analysis, the Forest Service is swapping the nation dirt roads. There is surely a question in a lot of system of very expensive roads is worth anything moved. Roads do not reduce fires but create great term "multiple use" under the clear cut system of of mockery for we have come to know that there i single use on public lands than clear cut logging.

The past ten years have seen the Forest Service laws. "Their expenses have raised to meet their inco to consume the time allotted. Their numbers hav noticeable increase in the work accomplished and their ability to accomplish the tasks set forth ha recently it would appear that the Forest Service accountable to no one. It has been aptly said, "It is that which we are given to manage, we come to recently in evidence as more and more the people gress and the courts, that the Forest Service has

The question has occurred to many of us, is t managing our national forests? The answer is a p tional changes take place within the agency and if able to develop a land ethic that demands a good are willing to spend the money to reclaim vast properly silviculturally treat our high producing Forest Service will only reflect the mood and desi this nation allows and often demands that our fores 60-209-71-pt. 26

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UL forest products аnи шoruer to secure шe venetLS ce of water supply, regulation of stream flow, prevention o ioration of climate, and preservation of wildlife." Nowhere e should cut out and get out. The Multiple Use and Sustained states clearly, "Sustained Yield of the several products and g the achievement and maintenance in perpetuity of a highgular periodic output of the various renewable resources of sts without impairment of the productivity of the land. Yet broken so often it can scarcely be considered a law. There n the attitude of the nation toward its forests, and soon. We spend hard dollars on pruning, thinning, and general silvicul lant and rehabilitate thousands of acres of high quality tir that now lie fallow and neglected. And we must resist the t ercut our forests for whatever reason. We must recognize ends on our forest environs.

often now of the need for home construction and that we eriod of great housing boom. We read also of the Mayo Rej en billion board feet increase in our timber cut; or a total of ase by 1980. This strikes fear in my heart and I believe er of rangers and foresters, who must try to produce this tim re this fear. I would urge the congress not to allow the bur e placed upon our forests. They are finite, their ability to prod retched beyond that ability, our forests will fail.

ast we ignore the dignity of our forests? Cannot we as men co the character of a great old spike topped ponderosa? I h ill always be forests of disorder where the giants stand o and one may stand in a shaft of leaf-filtered light and contempl nding life in the moulding crumbling corpse of a fallen ancest spirit of the forest reject the concept of being regimented i v of uniform duplication? What do we ourselves become when ve to great raw patches on our mountains as though the sl way? We found our forested mountains beautiful and giving arn to share life with them?

CHURCH. Mrs. Doris Milner of Hamilton, Mont., is our ne

er, we shall be glad to hear from you at this time.

T OF MRS. DORIS MILNER, A MEMBER OF TH ION COMMITTEE OF THE RAVALLI COUNTY RESOURC ATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

NER. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, m ris Milner, and I am here today representing myself and

eral public indifference to resource manage adequate technical knowledge about wildla search program not geared to filling this inadequate and lopsided financing of wildla

Under such circumstances, it was inevita done to the land and that problems would b face of our wildlands. Fortunately, there i what has been happening. It is the hope of m ness can be turned into constructive action gress, the agency, and the public.

The central issue, as I see it, is whether ready to implement an adequate program on our public lands.

It seems to me that, if such an objective gress of the United States must take four the land management agencies to state their than has been the case in the past, so the A sured that neither production needs, such as quality are neglected and, where compromis properly reflect the public will.

Second, the Congress should require the branches of the Forest Service and other F restate the nature and cost of a research p short a time as possible, fill in the most obvio of the resource and its proper management in hand, it is important that Congress pro to institute the necessary research programs.

Thirdly, Federal land management agen tell us how much effort and cost it will take e job of managing and protecting publicly ov and the stream and river systems on them.

Congress must then give these activities a is commensurate with whatever level of us nection there are two points I would like t cannot afford to handle in such a way as to p