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tion to the 5.4 million acres of wilderness designated by ANILCA 

 in 1980. 



It would reduce the allowable sale quantity by more than 75 mil- 

 lion feet and interrupt four operations currently under contract. It 

 would also preclude planned timber operations in three additional 

 areas, and it would destroy the productive balance of two pulp 

 mills and five saw mills in the forest. 



The impacts of this additional wilderness cannot be justified by 

 any type of rational land planning. That is why the environment 

 community is attempting to get Congress to legislate it in advance 

 of the TLMP revision process. 



I would like to show you just a little bit of what the impact 

 would be on a map displayed here on the board. I will try to speak 

 loudly so I can do it from here. This map shows the existing wilder- 

 ness areas in blue, and it shows the LUD-II or no-harvest areas in 

 orange. 



The black areas that are described on the map are the 23 areas 

 proposed in the House legislation. One of the things I'd like to 

 point out that happened in the original Tongass, TLMP or Tongass 

 process, the ANILCA process in the original designations of wilder- 

 nesses, is that this is a large, 2.2 million acre Mysty Fjord wilder- 

 ness area, and it shut off any possibility of an access route into the 

 lower part of southeast Alaska by closing the access to the Unitka 

 River in this area. 



The Stikine area also closed off any access to the Wrangell or Pe- 

 tersburg area for development, because it made the Stikine River 

 into a wilderness area. 



Very few of the larger areas in southeast Alaska have the ability 

 to have a continuous road operation. A good example of one that 

 does not is Ketchikan. Ketchikan has 17 miles of road one direc- 

 tion, 20-some miles of road the other direction; not apt to have a lot 

 more road out of there developed by timber because the timber is 

 not contiguous to that area. 



Northern Prince of Wales Island is one of the areas that is con- 

 tiguous and has a huge road development on it now. It has 700 

 miles of drivable road developed on that island. There is only two 

 other areas in southeast Alaska that have that potential. One is 

 QU Island and the other is the north end of the Chichagof Island. 



Those are very skillfully being put into these new wilderness 

 areas so that that access can be closed off. As you can see here, in 

 the QU Island area there is a wilderness existing here. This would 

 cut off any access to the other areas, as will this and this, so that 

 you cannot develop this contiguous road system. 



It is going to make logging more difficult in those areas. So that 

 the proposal that is there not only shuts off the logging that is ac- 

 tually in those areas, but it closes off the ability to do a lot of the 

 additional logging that could be done economically in the area. 



This one you can see tied this into this wilderness area [indicat- 

 ing]. It closes off any road access into this area to get a contiguous 

 road system. This is of course the Admiralty Island wilderness. 



This piece of wilderness shuts off any access going south into the 

 interior part of the country because it is close to the Taku River. 



