REGIONAL
Lawmakers worried that
Siberian logs are bugged
WASHINGTON (AP) Fear
ful of Soviet pest infestations
and plant diseases, three North
west lawmakers tailed on Agri
culture Secretary Clayton Vent
ter Wednesday to temporarily
ban imports of raw loss from
Siberia.
"I’m not willing to play Rus
sian roulette with our forests so
that a few big timber compa
nies can make a buck." Rep.
Peter DeFazio, D-Ore . said.
"There is no acceptable level
of risk when the health, per
haps tin; even survival, of the
greatest coniferous forests of
the Northwest is at stake." he
said.
Oregon Democrats l.es Au
Goin and Ron Wyden joined
DeFazio in asking Vender to
adopt emergency regulations
halting the Siberian imports.
“The prospect of inadver
tently introducing a devastat
ing pest or pathogen into the
coniferous forests of the Pacific
Northwest has us deeply trou
bled." the lawmakers said in a
letter to the secretary
Failure to take action could
result in devastation as great as
the infestations of Dutch elm
disease or the Asian chestnut
hlight. they said.
The congressmen cited an in
ternal memo in the Agriculture
Department's Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service that
admits little is known about
100 insects, fungi, mollusks
and nematodes that the service
says could be found in Siberian
timber
An Agriculture Department
spokesman said Wednesday the
letter had not been reviewed
and there was no one immedi
ately available to comment
Northwest timber companies
have been looking for additiou
Qfi
<il raw materials to keep their
mills running in the fate of do
mestic logging cutbacks due in
part to federalh mandated pro
tection of the threatened north
ern spotted owl
Louisiana-Pacific Corp re
ceived a test shipment of Silie
rian logs at one of its Northern
California mills last summer
and further shipments are
planned by at least one other
company. DeFazio said
In the first shipment, the logs
were inspected, debarked and
fumigated at an Oakland port
before they went to the mill, he
said.
Hut the Agriculture Depart
ment’s internal memo dated
Sept 2f» said fumigation proba
bly would not hr- effective
against harmful fungi
"Insects in the Silrerian logs
are difficult to deter t." said the
memo written by I \V
l.ightfield. chief operations of
ficer for the inspection ser
vice’s Biological Assessment
and Taxonomir Support Plant
Protection anti Quarantine in
Hyattsville. Md
"Fumigation will be effet live
only against insects, mollusks
and nematodes Removal ol the
bark will reduce the risk for all
Hark removal first and then fu
migating will further reduce
the risk, especially if both were
conducted in Siberia If treated
in Siberia, safeguards should
lie in place to prevent contami
nation," the memo said.
The memo said a lack of in
formation makes it difficult to
draw additional com lusions.
"In our view, any further im
portation of logs without full
study and regulatory stops to
eliminate the risk of such a di
saster is unacceptable." one
congressman said
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