Industry angered, bewildered by Option 9

f TERY few in the lumber industry

V cheered when President Clinton announced his Option 9 harvest plan July l. Even so-called environmentalists responded with anger and frustration. However, the timber industry resolved to continue working with the Adminisfation and Congress to fashion a more reasonable solution to the timber crisis.

Gary Donnelly, executive vice president of National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association, summed up the reaction of most retailers when he said, "In our opinion, not only does the President have a distorted view of'balance,' he has wasted the time and effort of five cabinet agencies, not to mention us civilians over the last 90 days developing this balanced approach."

Legislators, too, felt betrayed by the decision. Many from areas sustained by the lumber industry as well as Speaker Tom Foley refused to auend the announcement ceremony.

Prepared by the Ecosystem Management Assessment Working Group, Option 9 stipulates: o Federal forest harvests in the coast areas of Washington, Oregon and Northern California will be held to 12 billion board feet over the next 10 years - 1.2 billion annually. o Displaced workers and timber dependent communities will receive $270 million for fiscal year 1994 or $1.2 billion over five years in economic aid. o Reserve areas for owls will be set up with logging limited to some salvage and thinning of young trees if it poses no threat to the species. o Ten adaptive management areas of 78,000 to 380,000 acres each will be established for ecological experiments. a Protection of entire watersheds will be attempted in order to head off controversies over endangered salmon and other fish species.

(During the '80s annual harvests were around 5 billion, although they have dropped below that in more recent yea$.)

Oregon Fights Back

William Peny Pendley, president of the Mountain States Legal Foundation, a non-profit legal center based in Denver, Co., will help the Oregon Lands Coalition to "equip volunteers with the basic tools needed to beat the national environmental groups at their own dirty little game," according to Judy Wortman, Enterprise, Or., an officer of OLC.

Pendley will be keynote speaker at a Coalition workshop, Aug. 13 in Philomath, Or. Volunteers will learn how to file appeals, request injunctions and write "intent to sue" notices. Pre-registration is required and can be made by calling (503) 363-8582.

The Administration said it will trv to make 2 billion board feet of timber available this year from previously approved or consummated sales, some salvage and some timber from Indian Lands.

Because the plan will be implemented administratively, it does not need congressional approval with the possible exc€ption of authorization of economic aid funds. The plan was filed July 16 as an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) in response to the existing court imposed injunction. If this fourth attempt (three under President Bush) to have the injunction lifted fails, or if the EIS is challenged in court as enviros threaten, the plan will probably be taken to Congress.

As many as 85,000 direct and indirect jobs are expected to be lost with the part of the industry dependent on federal lands ceasing to exist.

Story at a Glance

Despite discouragement, lumber industry resolved to keep trying for solution to timber crisis ... Federal forest harvests will be limited to 12 billion feet over next 10 years 85,000 jobs expected to evaPorate.

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