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Bills providing for a redwood national park in California and for a national park, wilderness areas and a recreation area in the North Cascades of Washington State have passed the U.S. Congress and have immediately drawn sharp protest.

'oThe North Cascades pla nwas passed over the objection of the majority of those who testified on the bill at Congressional hearings in Ifashington State," pointed out by Wendell B. Barnes, Western Wood Products Association.

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The redwood national park measure provides for a 58,0(X)-acre park, estimated to cost over $92 million, which was termed a compromise between the 64,000-acre park approved last year by the Senate and the 28,000-acre park approved in July by the House. The bill provides for the exchange o{ land in the 14,500acre Forest Service-managed Northern Redwood Purchase Unit for private land taken for the park.

With the President's signature (expected soon) on the bill, title to some 28,100 acres of private land will pass to the federal government. Three California Redwood State Parks-Jedediah Smith, Del Norte, and Prairie Creek-are included within tJle boundaries of the national park. However, the state parks must be donated to the federal government.

Most of the protest against the park and wilderness area in Washington State came from outdoorsmen themselves, IVWPA's Barnes said. He explained that hunting is not permitted in national parks, and that all forms of mechanized transport, including aircraft, are banned from wilderness areas.

"This means that all the residents of the urban area along Puget Sound who drive a camper or own a motor boat are pro-hibited from using much of the 1.2 million-acre area involved in the bill," Barnes said.

He charged that the park also will remove much commercial timber from constructive use, not only harming the local economy but denying the use of this wood to help answer the demands of a growing nation.

. "Y" feel that this park-wilderness proposal was rushed through into law without study of its total efiect upon the State of Washington and the nation," he said, adding that the redwood park similarly was speeded into law.

The -redwoods legislation contains some extremely bad precedents for future single-use legislation, Barnes reported. One of these is the provision that those whose land is seized have recourse only after the fact and only in the Court of Claims in Washington, D. C., rather than in Federal District Courts in the state.