The only other cut since 1950 was a 0.58 percent reduction in 1994.

That would amount to a 17 percent reduction from last year's level of $6.7 billion.

It dropped to 17.4 billion board feet in 1994, a 27 percent reduction.

After the 25 percent reduction, California would drop to 14th, state officials said.

The county's goal is a 40 percent reduction by 1997.

The plan calls for a 12 percent reduction in capacity over the next three years.

Without the 5 percent reductions, he said, the performance in March would have been even worse.

On average, there is about a 10 percent reduction in power.

The market had expected the count to show a 5 percent reduction.

And Congress is calling for 20 to 30 percent reductions in many of these programs.