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plans our goal was to design and present alternative logging proposals whereby the Forest 

 Service could meet its contractual timber supply obligations while still protecting key fish and 

 wildlife watersheds. 



SEACC staff and volunteers spent, literally, hundreds of hours studying Forest Service maps 

 and map overlays that showed: commercial forest land, timber stands by volume class and 

 operating cost recovery, roads and future road corridors, timber harvest layout plans, recreation 

 sites, catalogued salmon streams, wildlife habitat, and key wildlife use areas. 



Unfortunately, the Forest Service rejected SEACC's proposal for the APC contract area, and 

 accepted only small parts of our proposal for the K.PC contract area. The Forest Service told 

 SEACC that the long-term contracts gave the timber companies the dominant voice in final 

 logging plans and that the contracts did not allow the agency enough flexibility to accept 

 SEACC's proposals. 



These efforts taught SEACC that the long-term timber contracts were simply too ironclad to 

 allow for true, balanced multiple use management of the Tongass. The contracts forced a 

 management system where timber dominated--at every turn on every acre. Our work on these 

 timber plans had several results: 



1. It provided part of the multi-resource background for SEACC's Tongass reform 

 proposal; 



2. It illustrated that permanent lands protection was necessary to keep key wildlife, 

 fish, subsistence, and recreation areas from being logged; 



3. It demonstrated the need to cancel the long-term timber contracts so that true, 

 balanced multiple use could take place on the Tongass. 



In 1983, SEACC initiated a community outreach program designed to encourage local 

 community discussion of fish and wildlife habitat needs on the Tongass. As part of that 

 program the public was invited to map areas of importance to local communities for hunting, 

 trapping, fishing, subsistence, and recreation. Because this map project was so integrally tied 

 to SEACC's public outreach process it is described in detail in the response to question 2c, 

 below. 



2c. How many public meetings did you hold around Southeast Alaska to explain your land 

 planning proposal? 



The seed of SEACC's Tongass lands proposal was sown in the 1970s, when SEACC's .nember 

 organizations assembled a proposal to protect 45 key fish, wildlife, and recreation areas on the 

 Tongass. In the 1980s SEACC held dozens of meetings throughout Southeast Alaska where 

 SEACC's Tongass land protection and reform proposals were discussed. Many of these 

 meetings were regular meetings of our local member organizations, which are open to the 

 public. Some of these meetings were regular meetings of local Fish and Game Advisory 

 Committees (the groups that make policy and regulatory recommendations to the state fish and 

 game boards and to the Governor), and some were sponsored by local elected officials, such as 

 the Pelican City Council, the Tenakee Springs City Council, and the Point Baker Community 

 Association. All in all we've held more than 40 public meetings regarding our land planning 

 proposals. 



A cornerstone of SEACC's public process of developing our Tongass reform proposals was the 

 series of formal public meetings held between 1983 and 1985. SEACC conducted a series of 

 public "habitat conservation workshops" throughout the Panhandle, in Ketchikan, Craig, Tokeen 



