minant use." At the same time, the executive bra ese interests and ordered a ravenous and mutiliat e timber cut of the people's forests.

lion board feet of cut in 1950, the figure jumped to feet in 1960, then to 15 billion in 1970. And now con order to raise it to 22.3 billion board feet a year. destruction in the face of the findings of the State U ntana that new timber growth has not begun to catch That we are dooming our forests to scrubland. That o stem will be robbed of beautiful stands of old grow already 5 million acres behind in replanting. That a surplus of 6 to 9 billion board feet which we are expo ountries?

ut time-in our disgracefully exploitative history-th 1 some restraint in our public land policy? What push action of the last board foot of lumber, the last ton last blade of grass for grazing? The answer is an ugly on ow for a new stewardship. We can never duplicate the s again in our history on Earth. We can never bring bac l variety of wildlife-now hunted and hiding. A worl oy of our animal companions is a bleak and lonely worl

Mr. Chairman.

t add that this statement represents the views of ou y 50,000 members.

URCH. I understand that. And I appreciate it.

oleheartedly with your conclusions that it will indeed ly world without animals.

STEIN. Thank you.

URCH. Thank you very much.

t to the hearing Dr. Rienow submitted the following suptatement:)

STATEMENT OF DR. ROBERT RIENOW, PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL THE ENVIRONMENT, STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, N.Y.

n public is singularly grateful to Senator Church and the SubPublic Lands for this opportunity to express its fervent desires 's forests-"which belong to all the people, not to a handful of

cutting i vul forests. These joiesis uv Ποι peiving had been promised they would serve us for many yea water supply bases, but also for refuges to help save you hear the latest report that one-tenth of our mam extinction?) These national forests are needed not as we can-but to provide our society, already suffe due to our pace of life in the cities—with what will p commodity of all-green open spaces, havens for res the tensions, noise, and ugliness of city living. * * * Under Secretary of Agriculture J. Phil Campbell will seek to esculate cutting by 60 percent! Already States, completely defying the expressed will of th has ordered-by Presidential fiat-this incredible

They expect, we are told, to bamboozle and ren wrapping up this new demand in with the multibilli the Agriculture Department-a neat trick, but an become well aware of this trick.

As if this deception were not enough, now we ha rageously outmoded report of the Public Land Lau report is dedicated to the "dominant use" theory of p simply means that "the lumbermen will get all th get all the grass, the mining interests will get th get nothing."

Help us to protect ourselves from such a fate. C better world than this.

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Resolution-Mohawk-Hudson Group,

Whereas, it is the established policy of the Cons our national forests be administered on a multiple use Whereas, an attempt to invade the national forest tive doctrines in the guise of management was mad February of 1970 and was thoroughly repudiated by Congress of the United States

Whereas, the allowable cut is exceeding and contin yield of timber on national forest lands

Whereas, the forests of the United States make sig national environmental welfare only so long as they condition

ING. Mr. Chairman, there are two other men from Cali the University of California, I do not have his name, ho would like to appear with me.

CHURCH. Very well. Mr. Donald Dahlstein of the U alifornia and Mr. Dave Van de Mark of Trinidad, Ca ING. Thank you.

y while they are being seated that we are concerned w of the forests. And I certainly personally am very m ou for the opportunity to appear and give my thoughts he subject of what are we doing with our forests. round is that I have a Ph. D. in plant ecology and pl have most of my life either in Redwood forests in north or in the Ponderosa pine forests of the Sierra Nevada And my biographical material is on the last page of

ke to ask that this whole statement be put in the record at it.

dd too that I am director of environmental studies te College.

working on an environmental study school in our colle ate the fact that many wise people are involved in t I do appreciate your wisdom, Senator.

ke to suggest in general that we are not as wise as we mig just how wise we are.

privilege in the last spring of taking a 3-month trip arou nd I was trying to see how wise people were in many are seen many areas in Spain where the sheep herders ha soil, where the city of Toledo is sitting on solid rockhe Parthenon, as perhaps you do, the Parthenon appea › on marble.

one of my most interesting experiences was in the northe uzon, some 3 days north of Manila, a very interesti with the Bontoc Igorot. Perhaps you have been there. It w at these people have done in their wisdom. I think th I have read in one book on political science a civilizati of people who have lived together in fairly large numb

upon the soil, if we project ourselves into the fu

Senator CHURCH. What else have we really the water and the air? These are the elementar Mr. STOCKING. These people have wisdom, t And so they went to remonstrate with this right to cut down the timber. They said, "But away from us, this is all we know."

And so he said, "I have the papers, this is th papers from Manila, or wherever he got them. Well, they did all they could. And in some used the hard axe system of agriculture, which that has been going on for thousands of years. should go on.

There was no solution to the problem as far they did have a solution. One of them took his the man's head from his body.

Now, I do not advocate that. That is not a the problem. But I think we ought to use ou that you have such a good head, but I am sorry the direction you seem to be taking.

Senator CHURCH. Thanks for your head. Us Mr. STOCKING. This is exactly what happen It is my professional opinion as an ecologis on the fragility of soils and the years require is sound. I think that his basic conclusions ar be supported.

I talked with Dr. Gray, whom you have jus this morning. And I agreet with him. These dedicated. They have their doctoral degrees Berkeley, which is represented at this table at to downgrade others, but their institution has a

There was reference today to an experiment ber 1970 Scientific American. I have a copy Scientific American in my room across the str considerable interest. I notice that it has to do 60-209-71-pt. 27

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nd I saw no degradation of their forests. And I ar e that our forests are being degraded. In terms of e should think of this.

from the people

CHURCH. The Japanese are a very wise people. We th the Second World War, and they turned out to be th

ners.

>CKING. I could not agree more, that they are a wise d in one of my conclusions from my brief observati le are doing in their land that it is the people that hav ntrol of their land on a local level for such long peri are the ones who love the land and are the wisest in have never been overrun significantly in their history e f time by us. And we supported their recovery, as you

matter of fishing in southeastern Alaska, in the Tongas rest-I live in northern California. I have friends at 1 te College. One of them wrote some doggerel about wha when we misused our land. And he said, after we have orests as we have in Humboldt and Sonoma Countiesplace that we can fish for salmon is 3 feet underground. eat in southeastern Alaska, I think.

as my written statement goes, I will just refer to a thir I believe might add to what has been said that you ha ally listened to.

sult of the land study and observation, it is my conclu ogist that clear-cutting results in a major environmental And I would like to insert the next sentence:

s almost always true on slopes, and it is often true on the soil is degraded by clear-cutting."

seen this during my life. In the last 4 years I have be e woods, I think, in many ways. Two days this last we the forests of California.

logical disadvantages of clear cutting as compared with se g in most forest situations are striking. And these, or cou e heard so often in the last 2 days, 212 days, include gre d soil erosion and depletion.