S. HRG. 108-714 MISCELLANEOUS PUBLIC LANDS AND FOREST BILLS HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON PUBLIC LANDS AND FORESTS OF THE COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED EIGHTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION LD 11. 2005 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office PETE V. DOMENICI and JEFF BINGAMAN are Ex Officio Members of the Subcommittee FRANK GLADICS, Professional Staff Member SCOTT MILLER, Democratic Counsel Amador, Don, Western Representative, BlueRibbon Coalition, Oakley, CA MISCELLANEOUS PUBLIC LANDS AND FOREST BILLS WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 2004 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON PUBLIC LANDS AND FORESTS, COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 2:30 p.m., in room SD-366, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Larry E. Craig presiding. OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. LARRY E. CRAIG, Senator CRAIG. The subcommittee will come to order. Senator Boxer, Congressman Mike Thompson, please be seated if you would. Good afternoon everyone. I want to thank each and all of you for coming to the hearing today. I am happy to see so many of our colleagues and hope that others will join us. I also want to thank Senator Bingaman, our Energy and Natural Resources Committee ranking member, for coming to the hearing today on these issues. We have quite a list to cover. I know many of you have statements that you will want to make. We would hope you can keep them brief. We will enter them into the record. Likewise, I would like to welcome the three witnesses who have traveled to Washington, D.C. to testify. Finally, I want to welcome our witnesses from the administration to testify on these seven bills. Today we will be hearing testimony on seven bills, including: S. 738, Senator Boxer and Senator Feinstein's bill to designate certain public lands in the Humboldt, Del Norte, Mendocino, Lake, Napa, and Yolo Counties in the State of California as wilderness and to designate certain segments of the Black Butte River in Mendocino County, California as wild and scenic; S. 1614, Senator Cantwell and Senator Murray's bill to designate a portion of the White Salmon River as a component of the National Wild and Scenic River System; S. 2221, Senator Smith and Senator Wyden's bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell and/or exchange certain national forest lands in the State of Oregon and to correct a wilderness boundary that cutoff access to 12 miles of forest system roads in the Umpqua National Forest; |