HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS AND PUBLIC LANDS OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS NINETY-FIFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON H.R. 3454 TO DESIGNATE CERTAIN ENDANGERED PUBLIC LANDS Statements-Continued Johnstone, Charles, Sitka Conservation Society__ Kittrick, James, professor of soil science, Washington State University- Page 661 650 602 Panel consisting of: Martin Devere, executive assistant, North West Timber Asso- 350 Arnie Ewing, executive vice president, North West Timber As- 345 John W. Davis, Willamette Industries, Inc-- 350 Jim O'Donnell, executive vice president, Northwest Pine As- 354 Panel consisting of: Larry Blasing, resource forester, Inland Forest Resource Council, 467 Don Nettleton, director of land management for Rocky Moun- 472 474 Richard Shimer, Evans Products Co., Missoula, Mont. 476 477 479 Panel consisting of: William Cunningham, the Wilderness Society- 533 Douglas Chadwick, Montana Wilderness Association, Montana__ 542 539 Panel consisting of: Erwin Kulosa, Federal Timber Purchasers Association, Al- Gus Kuehne, American Plywood Association, Takoma, Wash John Hall, National Forest Products Association, Washington, 551 552 555 409 640 ENDANGERED AMERICAN WILDERNESS ACT MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1977 U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS AND PUBLIC LANDS, COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:49 a.m., in room 1324, Longworth House Office Building, Hon. Teno Roncalio (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Mr. RONCALIO. These hearings of the Interior Committee's Subcommittee on Indian Affairs and Public Lands will come to order. We meet this morning to begin hearings on the Endangered American Wilderness Act of 1977. We believe that wilderness is a just form of land dedication. We think it will preserve significant portions of public lands in the natural condition and still provide many human values and uses including commercial uses. Further generations will benefit from wilderness designations in ways we cannot perceive today. One thing we think is clear: future generations have a right to be permitted an opportunity to making land-use decisions relative to areas in which they will live by themselves and for themselves unencumbered by our mistakes. Today's system-the National Wilderness Preservation Systemenjoys broad public support. The 1964 act is recognized as a landmark of environmental policy and we hope our work can make a meaningful contribution to fulfilling the purposes of that act. We know that there is public controversy over our decisions regarding congressional actions now. Congress has to be the final arbiter in these decisions of whether these areas are to be preserved as wilderness. We will begin these hearings knowing that we may very well have occasion to hear from those who will think otherwise of our actions. I assured the industry that we would have a hearing or listen to citizens in the Saratoga area of Wyoming. I intended to do that this last weekend but I got caught in a literal landslide of opposition to the President's actions last week in deferring irrigation reclamation projects out West, three of which hit Colorado and one of which has a direct effect upon central Wyoming. In Saratoga this week, Savage Run was not the dominant issue; the preservation of a water program is. Nevertheless, we will move ahead as best we can with some hearing or meeting in Saratoga regarding its effect on Wyoming. I know of no one who would insist that all of our orders ought to be sacrifices. This Nation is rich enough and its potential great. We can continue to have more wilderness and a sound forest economy at the same time. COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MORRIS K. UDALL, Arizona, Chairman PHILLIP BURTON, California JIM SANTINI, Nevada PAUL E. TSONGAS, Massachusetts JAMES WEAVER, Oregon BOB CARR, Michigan GEORGE MILLER, California THEODORE M. (TED) RISENHOOVER, Oklahoma JAMES J. FLORIO, New Jersey DAWSON MATHIS, Georgia PHILIP R. SHARP, Indiana MATTHEW F. MCHUGH, New York JOHN KREBS, California EDWARD J. MARKEY, Massachusetts JOE SKUBITZ, Kansas, Ranking Minority Member DON YOUNG, Alaska ROBERT E. BAUMAN, Maryland JAMES P. (JIM) JOHNSON, Colorado RON MARLENEE, Montana MICKEY EDWARDS, Oklahoma ANDREW WIESSNER, Counsel SHARON COCKAYNE, Staff Assistant MICHAEL D. JACKSON, Minority Consultant NOTE. The first listed minority member is counterpart to the subcommittee chairman. (II) |