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Some of the standards, the standards for stream protection, are 

 not the same on public and private lands. There was an early rec- 

 ognition that private landowners could not be expected to perform 

 to the same level of public needs as one would expect on public 

 lands. 



Senator Murkowski. I agree with you there. But you would 

 expect the State of Alaska to at least enunciate, from a point of 

 wishful thinking at least, a parallel, a policy, since the State is re- 

 sponsible for its forest management practices on private land and 

 it is voicing its opinion on what is desirable on Federal land within 

 the State of Alaska. 



From the standpoint of the Department of Fish and Game, Mr. 

 Anderson, do you have any comment on the degree of satisfaction 

 that you folks have with the forest practices on private land? 



Dr. Anderson. Compared to existing forest practices on private 

 land, I would say that the Department of Fish and Game is not 

 pleased with the current situation. We would like to see changes 

 there as well. 



Senator Murkowski. Do you think that they ought to be compa- 

 rable changes? In other words, in the sense that whatever is man- 

 dated for Federal lands should be mandated for State land and pri- 

 vate land in the State as well? Because you can set your own poli- 

 cies on State land, but unfortunately there is very little of it. 



Dr. Anderson. I think I will defer to Craig on that point if I 

 could. 



Mr. Lindh. Senator, the Department of Fish and Game was one 

 of the participating agencies in that consensus process, and the 

 agreement which is before the State legislature, the Department of 

 Fish and Game agrees with what is in it. 



It is clearly not what any one individual would like to see as 

 being the best possible for their own interests. But everybody 

 around that negotiating table recognized that it was a pretty good 

 package that they could live with. 



So again to reiterate, the protection on private lands afforded by 

 the new Forest Practices Act is considerably greater than what is 

 under the current Act. 



Senator Murkowski. But it is less than under the Federal? 



Mr. Lindh. Less than on public lands. 



Senator Murkowski. How about, where is it in relationship to 

 State lands? 



Mr. Lindh. It is less than State lands. 



Senator Murkowski. We are setting a higher standard for Feder- 

 al, then we are going down to State, and the lowest will be private? 



Mr. Lindh. I understand that the highest standard that has been 

 agreed to will be for State lands. 



Senator Murkowski. State, so you do have buffer strips on State 

 lands? 



Mr. Lindh. That is proposed in the legislation. 



Senator Murkowski. You do not have it now? 



Mr. Lindh. They are done on a case by case approach now. 



Ms. Troll. Yes, and in those area forest land use plans when 

 they are done, they have through the planning process established 

 100-foot buffers on anadromous streams. 



