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FOIA Number: 2012-0769-F
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administrative marker by the William J. Clinton
Presidential Library Staff.
Collection/Record Group:
Clinton Presidential Records
Subgroup/Office of Origin:
Council on Environmental Quality
Series/Staff Member:
Kathleen (Katie) McGinty
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John M. Turner
Corporate Director, Government Affairs
Georgia-Pacific Corporation
1875 Eye Street, N.W., #775
Washington, DC 20006
Direct: (202) 828-9629
Switchboard: (202) 659-3600
FAX: (202) 223-1398
ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT/FOREST HEALTH
G-P Position for a Solution
G-P supports an ecosystem management plan in the Northwest that
includes all federal lands not Congressionally set aside for other
purposes. Ecosystem management should allow for harvesting within
merchantable stands over the entire landscape while guaranteeing
the protection of fish and wildlife habitat and other public
resources. Untouched forest areas (the true virgin "old-growth"
forests) defined as having a stand age greater than 200 years with
no previous harvesting history should be managed to minimize, to
the maximum extent practicable, threats of fire, disease and insect
infestations.
Second-growth forests that reach 200 years of age should remain in
the ecosystem management plan and continue to be available for
harvesting. Private lands, including adjacent and in-holdings,
should be managed for needed fiber with environmental impacts
minimized to the extent practicable.
G-P supports an emergency action provision in the Administration's
plan to salvage dead and dying timber in the Northwest. Failing to
salvage this timber poses a threat to the long-term health of the
forests including the threat of wildfire to public and private
forests, fish and wildlife habitat, and forest communities. This
would have an immediate, beneficial effect on timber availability.
During the last 50 years, U.S. forest policy substantially reduced
the threat of fire in our forests. The failure to salvage dead and
dying timber increases the fuel load in forests significantly above
normal, background levels. This increased fuel load on public land
puts adjacent private lands at risk. It also reverses, in effect,
the fire protection policy that has reduced annual Northwest losses
to wildfire from 30 to 50 million acres per year in the 1930's to
less than 5 million acres in recent years. An increased fuel load
also threatens the very habitat the wildlife federal policy seeks
to protect.
SUPPORTING POINTS:
*
G-P owns 120,000 acres of fee timberland on the northern
Oregon coast and 170,000 acres of fee timberland on the southern
Oregon coast, both of which have common boundaries with federal
timberland. In California, 190,000 acres of timberland are owned
in fee on the northern coast with an additional 125,000 acres in
the Sierra mountain range. The Sierra timberlands have common
boundaries with federal timberland. These timberlands support G-P
manufacturing facilities. Federal ecosystem plans must recognize
the role of private lands in timber management.
*
Ecosystem management is a natural resource management system
designed to maintain or enhance ecosystem health and productivity
while producing essential commodities and other values to meet
human needs and desires within the limits of acceptable social,
economic, and biological limits. Proper ecosystem management will
foster forest health.
*
A strong salvage program would provide an excellent start
toward a healthy ecosystem. Increased fuel loading caused by years
of drought and insect damage eventually will lead to major
conflagrations if an aggressive salvage program is not pursued.
The great amount of G-P timberland that is adjacent to federal
lands is a cause for great concern in this regard.
*
Due to fire, insects and disease, and weather events, natural
ecosystems consist of timber stands of all ages. A good management
plan that includes a variety of silvicultural techniques can mimic
these situations without the catastrophic events that destroy
timber, fish and wildlife habitat and water quality.
The federal land base offers a tremendous opportunity to
manage on an ecosystem basis. Once a desired forest condition has
been defined on a local basis, commodity output targets, land
allocations and management constraints can be evaluated.
Ecosystem management must be technically, economically, politically
and socially acceptable. Once implemented, the economic health and
vigor of local dependent communities will be strengthened. G-P
will require some federal timber to supplement its forest base for
the continued operation of G-P manufacturing facilities in the
Northwest.
*
Ecosystem management should apply to all non-congressionally
set-aside federal lands. Single species and single-use management
schemes (other than those congressionally set-aside) have no place
in ecosystem management planning.
Private landowners should retain the option of utilizing
ecosystem management techniques if so desired. However, there must
be a recognition that private timberlands should remain available
for needed fiber production, consistent with state and federal law.
Minimizing the impacts of protection and recovery of threatened and
endangered species should allow private lands to fill the gap in
federal timber supply.
A COMPARISON OF THE ISC REPORT AND THE OCCURENCE OF THE
NORTHERN SPOTTED OWL IN A MANAGED SECOND-GROWTH
REDWOOD FOREST. GEORGIA - PACIFIC CORPORATION, FORT
BRAGG, CALIFORNIA. 1992.
ISC Report - Assumption for a viable population
Georgia - Pacific Corporation lands
of Northern Spotted Owls.
Fort Bragg, California
(Thomas et al., 1990)
approximately 200,000 acres
0.11 owis/mi²
0.42 owis/mi² (1992 inventory sites only)
1 mi² = 640 acres
200,000 acres / 640 acres = 312.5 mi²
131 individual owls in 312.5 mi² =
0.4192 owls/mi²
2 owl pairs/township
6.91 owl pairs/township (1992 inventory)
1 Township = 23040 acres
200,000 acres / 23040 acres = 8.68 townships
60 owl pairs (1992)/ 8.68 = 6.91 prs./town.
Thomas, J.W., E.D. Forsman, J.B. Lint, E.C. Meslow, B.R. Noon, and J. Verner. 1990. A Conservation
Strategy for the Northern Spotted Owl. Interagency Scientific Committee to Address the
Conservation of the Northern Spotted Owl. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service; and
U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, National
Park Service. Portland, OR.
1989-1992 SPOTTED OWL RESEARCH
GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORP.
80
78
70
60
54
60
40
36
30
20
9
10
0
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
KNOWN SPOTT ED OWL LOCATIONS ON
GEORGIA-PACIFIC LANDS NEAR FORT BRAGG. CA
1989-1992 SPOTTED OWL RESEARCH
GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORP.
60
60
49
50
40
30
27
20
10
6
0
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
NUMBER OF KNOWN SPOTTED OWL PAIRS
OCCUPYING SITES ON GEORGIA-PACIRC LANDS.
1989-1992 SPOTTED OWL RESEARCH
GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORP.
40
37
36
30
24
26
18
20
15
10
2
5
0
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
THE NUMBER OF KNOWN SPOTTED OWL NEST
SITES OCCURING ON GEORGIA-PACIRC LANDS NEAR
FORT BRAGG. CA
1989-1992 SPOTTED OWL RESEARCH
GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORP.
39
40
36
30
26
23
22
20
15
10
5
3
0
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
THE NUMBER OF KNOWN YOUNG PRODUCED
FROM SUCCESSFUL SPOTTED OWL NEST ON
GEORGIA - PACIFIC CORP. LANDS NEAR FORT BRAGG. CA
1989-1992 SPOTTED OWL RESEARCH
GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORP.
0.86
0.9
0.65
0.8
0.7
0.50
0.46
06
0.5
0.4
03
02
0.1
0
1989
1990
1991
1992
NUMBER OF YOUNG PRODUCED PER KNOWN PAIR OF
SPOTTED OWLS ON GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
LANDS NEAR FORT BRAGG. CA
1989-1992 SPOTTED OWL RESEARCH
GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORP.
16
1.50
1.4
1.22
12
0.96
1.06
1
08
0.6
0.4
0.2
0
1989
1990
1991
1992
THE NUMBER OF YOUNG PRODUCED PER NEST
ON GEORGIAPACIFIC CORPORATION LANDS NEAR
FORT BRAGG. CA
KNOWN NORTHERN SPOTTED OWL
SITES OCCURING IN MENDOCINO,
NAPA, SONOMA, LAKE AND MARIN COUNTIES
OF CALIFORNIA. CALIF. DEPT. OF
FISH AND GAME
500
470
450
400
373
350
300
250
250
200
150
88
100
31
50
0
1977
1986
1990
1991
1992
Theodore W. Wooster, Enviromental Specialist IV. California Dept.
of Fish and Game. P.O. Box 47 Yountville, CA. 94599.
(707) 944-5524 Fax (707) 944-5563.
Georgia-Pacific Corporation
1875 Eye Street N.W., Suite 775
Washington, D.C. 20006
Telephone (202) 659-3600
FAX
(202) 223-1398
May 28, 1993
Mr. David Cottingham
Office of Environmental Policy
306 Old Executive Office Building
Washington, DC 20500
Dear David:
Carl Ehlen and I appreciated the opportunity to visit with you
about the Northwest Forest Plan. Attached is a series of maps
of Georgia-Pacific timberlands in California and Oregon. They
illustrate the concern we expressed that the ecosystem management
plan for federal forest not create adverse problems for private
forests.
Georgia-Pacific paper and wood products operations depend on
company lands for their timber supply. Access to our land and owl
populations are already presenting difficulty. The California land
at Ft. Bragg is 50 percent impacted by a growing owl population
while the Oregon lands are affected by the mixed ownerships.
As we indicated, we want to be supportive of the President's plan
when it is announced. We remain confident it will be a fair and
balanced plan that will recognize the role of private forests for
wood and fiber production.
Please feel free to contact me at 202/659-3600 if you have
questions or need information. I can make our management and
forestry people available to your office on short notice. Again,
thank you for taking time from a hectic schedule to see us.
Sincerely
John M. Turner
Corporate Director,
Government Affairs
JTM/gmb
GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
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OREGON
STATE LANDS
WILDERNESS & SPECIAL AREAS
MAP AREA
PREPARED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF TIMBER INVENTORY
GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
PORTLAND, OREGON
MAY 24, 1993
GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
TOLEDO TIMBERLANDS
AND PUBLIC LANDS
TILLAMOCK, LINCOLN, BENTON, YAMHILL & POLK COUNTIES
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GEORGIA-PACIFIC TIMBERLANDS
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
MAP AREA
USDA, FOREST SERVICE
STATE LANDS
OREGON
WILDERNESS & SPECIAL AREAS
PREPARED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF TIMBER INVENTORY
GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
PORTLAND, OREGON
MAY 24, 1993
GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
MARTELL TIMBERLANDS
AND PUBLIC LANDS
ELDORADO, AMADOR, CALAVARES
& TUOLUMNE COUNTIES
CALIFORNIA
DESOLATION
ELDORADO
MOKELUNNE
WLDERNESS
AMADOR
CALAVARES
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LEGEND
GEORGIA-PACIFIC TIMBERLANDS
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
MAP AREA
USDA, FOREST SERVICE
GP
STATE LANDS
WILDERNESS & SPECIAL AREAS
CALIFORNIA
PREPARED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF TIMBER INVENTORY
GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
PORTLAND, OREGON
MAY 24, 1993
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GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
FORT BRAGG TIMBERLANDS
AND PUBLIC LANDS
HUMBOLDT AND MENDOCINO COUNTIES
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CALIFORNIA
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MENDOCINO COUNTY
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GEORGIA-PACIFIC TIMBERLANDS
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
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WILDERNESS & SPECIAL AREAS
POINT
ARENA
PREPARED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF TIMBER INVENTORY
GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
PORTLAND, OREGON
MAY 24, 1993