[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 134 (Thursday, September 22, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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[Congressional Record: September 22, 1994]
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                         HEADWATERS FOREST ACT

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                               speech of

                       HON. THOMAS J. BARLOW III

                              of kentucky

                    in the house of representatives

                     Wednesday, September 21, 1994

       The House in Committee of the Whole House on the State of 
     the Union had under consideration the bill (H.R. 2866) to 
     provide for the sound management and protection of redwood 
     forest areas in Humboldt County, CA, by adding certain lands 
     and waters to the Six Rivers National Forest and by including 
     a portion of such lands in the national wilderness 
     preservation system:

  Mr. BARLOW. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge my colleagues to 
support the Headwaters Forest Act, H.R. 2866. The trees in Headwaters 
Forest are the last and largest stand of unprotected giant redwoods. 
This stand of old growth trees is the anchor for an entire regional 
ecosystem of immense scientific and economic importance.
  The Headwaters Forest Act will authorize Federal acquisition of 
44,000 acres of redwood forest in northern California. The act will not 
only protect a 160-million-year-old species but will sustain the 
logging industry of Northern California, by allowing 80 percent of the 
acquisition to be managed for a sustainable level of logging in second 
growth forests.
  By supporting the Headwaters Forest Act you are protecting our 
children's right to experience an unique ecosystem that exists nowhere 
else in the world.

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