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So when Congress considers forestry legisla tion, the special interests in the Pacific Northwest hone their politi cal skills and come out scratching. The controversial Mononghahela court ruling has spawned the latest forestry legislation now being con sidered by the House and Senate. Forest products representatives predict economic disaster if the Mononghahela decision is applied to the nation’s most timber-rich region, the Pacific Northwest. Convoys of log trucks rumbled into Portland last spring to hold a “funeral’’ for the timber industry. Several environmental groups filed suit in federal court to stop the practice of clear-cutting harvesting all the trees in a given area in the Mononghahela National Forest of West Virginia. A federal judge ruled that the Or ganic Act of 1897 prohibits clear- cutting because it says only dead or mature trees can he cut in national forests and all the trees to be cut must be marked. The Mononghahela ruling all but stopped national forest timber sales in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, as well as in West Virginia. Similar rulings followed in , Alaska and Texas. The House and Senate are consid ering two very different bills on the subject. The House bill still is in committee. The Senate passed its version by a 90-0 vote last week. The Senate bill has been criticized j from both sides. Industry lobbyists i complain it is too specific, raising the i risk of more lawsuits by environmen- i talists. i “What we have now is an omnibus i bill with too damn many things in it, ” : said Bill Hagenstein, veteran timber j industry lobbyist and executive j vice-president of the Industrial For- i estry Association, an organization of timber producers in Oregon and Washington. But some environmentalists say just the opposite. “In my opinion the bill is far too weak,” said David Corkran, a Sierra Club member from Portland. Theodore Schlapfer, regional forester for the Forest Service in the two states, said he doesn’t think the Senate bill would change the agen cy’s practices. The powerful environmental lobby pushed for legislation that covered the whole issue of timber management in national forests. The industry favored simple repeal of the offensive section of the Organic Act. As the legislation developed, the clear-cutting issue faded. Environ mentalists didn’t oppose clear- cutting as long as it was done under guidelines that protected the soil and minimized the visual impact. But other provisions of equal impor tance have kept the bill a special interest battleground. They include: •Requiring the Forest Service to operate under the sustained yield concept, which means no more timber could be cut than grown over a given period. The Forest Service now operates that way, but as an ad ministrative decision. It doesn’t have to. • Forbidding intensive harvesting and reforestation of so-called arid lands or lands that are not well suited for rapid growth of new trees •Changing the method of paying counties their share of revenue from national forest timber sales within their borders. Now, the cost of road construction and reforestation is subtracted from the revenue before the counties get their 25 per cent Under the new proposal, the coun ties would receive 25 per cent of the gross revenues. The Senate bill contains all three controversial provisions. The House version does not. Both allow clear cutting. The sustained yield provision i: the most controversial part of the Senate package. Rep. Jim Weaver, D-Ore., saic he’ll try to amend the House bill tc include the sustained yield require ment. Behind it are projections o shortages of timber on private lane with old growth stands being cut be fore the second growth reaches mar ketable size. A study by Dr. John Beuter oi Oregon State University predicts £ 22 per cent decline in the amount o: timber cut in Western Oregon b> the year 2000 because of the unavail ability of private timber. If private timber isn’t available environmentalists say the Fores Service will be under increases pressure to provide more trees That’s why they want the sustaint yield concept written into law. Hagenstein, the industry repre sentative, acknowledges the indus try believes more timber, particu larly mature trees, could he cut ii national forests. He said increasing the harves would set no precedent.