played пагос with thе randscape, not LO around Green Peter Dam on Quartzville Creek (a Corps of Engineers). In many places, logging has removed all living ve creek bed, eliminating not only the life on the slop of the creek. I request that this statement be made a part of the h Sincerely, P.S. Pictures available upon request. (M LOS ANGEL Hon. FRANK CHURCH, Senate Office Building, DEAR SENATOR CHURCH: I commend your upcomi agement. The outcry that came with the attempte Timber Supply Act pointed up significant abuses many of us previously thought "scientific." Particularly alarming, however, was the administ cutting on National Forest and Bureau of Land While the Forest Service contends that this can be of present sustained yield and multiple use objecti studied their methods question the proposal. The E increases in the allowable rate of harvest will be inaccessible timber is made available through the road systems." (J. W. Deinema, Acting Chief, US While funding for this directive was not forthcomin to increase cutting (S. 350) which would have the s Timber Supply Act only with a little nicer language. This should not obscure the basic fact that incre velopment threaten other equally important values fo be preserved. Timber is only one of the purposes of fo Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960 (16 U. values are specifically held consistant with the pu management by section 2 of the Multiple-Use Act the number of roads cannot help but have a disaste national supply of de facto wilderness. Wilderne source. As such it should receive top priority in forest n g recognition of advantages to be gained by not deviati gimen of nature. I have learned that environmental alter an are always accompanied by higher energy fluxes than th ey replace and that this energy, whether in the form of s is associated with pollution and environmental deteriorati ernment agencies such as the U.S. Forest Service have rong promoters of machine and chemical technology in ou ow become aware of what this means in terms of compac , siltation and long term threats to entire species. We y aware of the hazards of monoculture forestry and clearcut à notorious in Idaho. The convenience and economic benefits t-in clearcutting and reliance on heavy equipment and che ershadowed by long term losses in watershed values and -o catastrophe. ost strongly that the U.S. Forest Service be made to adhere to ded forest practices. I recommend particular the principles y as set forth by Gordon Robinson in the Sierra Club Bulleti ary 1971). I also urge that the principle of multiple use be read e ecological sense in which the priority is given to long term her than the short term benefits to special interests groups. ake this letter a part of the April 5 and 6 hearings record fo anagement Practices. erely yours, Dr. ROBERT F. MU VANCOUVER, WASH., April 4, K CHURCH, tee on Public Lands, , Washington, D.C. NATOR CHURCH: The American forestry industry needs to be we are to protect our public lands from serious misuse. Beca ressures the industry demands more and more allowable cut demands are being met without enough regard being paid to eco e of the lumber is being exported to foreign markets instead of d homes for Americans. Reseeded areas are being cut before the O grow to full maturity thus wasting timber as well as other n ot continue to allow our public lands to be harvested by an in omic values far outweigh ecologic aspects. migan Club of Vancouver, Washington wishes to go on reco eform in the management of our public lands. Please make this ng record. erely, BETTY ROSENKRANZ, Chairman, Ptarmigan Conservation Commit Part of the explanation lies in the fact that agree the Department of the Navy and the Department of use of National Forest lands for defense purposes. N exist with the Department of the Army and the Ai these agreements are attached for inclusion in th hearings. By these agreements, the determination of the nat the public interest is left to bureaucrats and functiona halls of representative government. By authority of facility for "Project Sanguine" was placed in the Che Mr. A. R. Schmidt, Acting Regional Forester (Region 1 Head of Management Department, Midwest Division, ing Command, signed the documents permitting the " velopment in the National Forest. It might be noted with particular reference to "I ments that at least three conditions of the agreement Forest Service appear to have been ignored or badly mediate availability of land is of no importance, mu since the Navy frequently states that "Sanguine" ma it does not appear that every effort was made by Navy lands. We have only their assurances that this was do determination of necessity for defense purposes and o prerogative not of elected officials but of minor ag applies to determining uses of the public lands. The existence of these agreements between the U. Departments of Army, Navy, and Air Force violates t the spirit of such laws as the Organic Administration Act (1960), and the Environmental Policy Act (1969 representative government. According to figures of the Public Land Law Revi military service branches have more land under their ently available in National Parks. The agreements bety and the Forest Service make available for military pu another 187 million acres of the public estate incl wilderness. More diabolical documents would be hard to imagin likely do not exist. It is incumbent upon elected repre the United States to call a halt to such insanities. cancelled. Respectfully, THOMAS (The agreements referred to were retained in the con ot even a single stand left as a screen along the highway, for ell aware that spruce is shallow rooted and probably must 3 is not clearcutting in 25 acre blocks. The Forest Servi to the park boundary and clearcutting is going on to the v forest corridors, so that campers within the park must gh miles of devastated cut land, but within the park must iver beds to denuded hills on each side. I am told this endar rridors from erosion and especially windstorms. It certainly s to further growth, this virgin spruce will not be replace est Service will grow pine for pulpwood on a short cycle. sible in that moist climate, but the whole procedure is a arvesting" not to say "excellent forestry". Slight increase s not going to compensate for this massive loss of cover increased erosion and silting in the streams. Inquiry sho co the sale of this one-time "mining" of the last great spruce ear the timber was destined for sale to Japan, at cut rates wh ke reforestation costs. By contrast, the neighboring stands of t least cosmetically preferable. To see Forest Service signs into question government priorities, economics and good f ely, CHURCH, = Building, Washington, D.C. ALEXANDRA D. DAW STUDIO CITY, CALIF., April 6, ATOR CHURCH: After reading the report from the Univers chool of Forestry, many questions have come to my mind in 1 ces of the U.S. Forest Service. rom Mr. Burnett H. Payne, Associate Deputy Chief of the not help answer any of my questions. When I asked him how a ere developed, he replied, "The allowable cut is developed thro agement plan prepared for each forest." According to the Univ 's report, quality timber management and harvest practices a the timber management plan for Bitterroot Forest. e also said, "An inventory is necessary to determine the volun lable, amount of young growth, condition of the timber and h ut to maintain a healthy, thrifty stand. This work is normally inventory crew." Obviously, the crew is making value judgmen e basis. But if the Bitterroot National Forest has been overcut is being harvested than the land can sustain under existing man pears that the ecological judgment in regards to plant-animalbeing overlooked in that particular forest. e admits that the procedure for establishing the allowable cut nical process, and for a layman to fully understand the detail ecessary to actually discuss the procedures involved in a spe In other parts of Arizona-Cochise, Santa Cruz ar ular-the mining interests are ruining the natural b under very loosely written statutes and forest service I It is to be hoped that your committee will help responsibility for oversight and evaluation of public policies must be determined by what is best for the pu the welfare of a particular industry. Please make this letter part of the permanent rec Thank you. Respectfully yours, JOSF AM Hon. FRANK CHURCH, Subcommittee on Public Lands, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. MY DEAR SENATOR: A paying job for every able-bo before any Congressional committee can ignore this National problem. Because I am unable to attend th Public Lands Subcommittee on management practic ticularly National Forests, I ask you to accept the f I have been a professional forester for nearly 60 y member of the U.S. Forest Service, in the Southwe practiced my profession in 20 States-as the first St the first director of two Federal forest experiment s management at the Delaware Valley College of Scie years; and a consulting forester since 1942. I have be of American Foresters since 1918, and a Fellow since of the Society's Forestry Handbook. A book of mine o privately owned woodlands in the East will be pub American Forestry Association. By paying jobs for able-bodied Americans I mean muscle to a natural resource. There is no other pro created, or labor paid for. Whoever seeks to lock up Nation should read the parable of the talents. I never from commercial use of a reasonable portion of ou Having earlier spent much of my professional time i was the originator of a successful effort to have the $750,000 for the purchase of 3500 acres of virgin McKean County, Pa. But I hotly challenge the aesth the beauty of a tree solely by its girth, height, and a and vigor of a tree, whether it originated without i planted by a forester. 60-209-71-pt. 2— -16 |