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Ketchikan Pulp Company 



Pcsl Odice Bo« 6300 

 Kelcnixan Alaska 99901 USA 

 Teleolone 907-225-2i5l 

 Telefax 907.225-8260 



September 21, 19S0 



Mr. J. Michael Lunn 

 Forest Supervisor 

 U. S. Forest Service 

 Ketchikan Area 

 Federal Building 

 Ketchikan, Alaska 99901 



Dear Mike: 



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The five-year allotment of timber the Forest Service identi- 

 fied in the 89-94 EIS for our LTS appears to require about 360 

 miles of new construction to access the 960 mmbf. 



Obviously, the roads must be built early enough in the five- 

 year period to allow time for harvest. As you know, normally 

 we consider six months of road constructed ahead of the 

 logging the minimum, although two or more years ahead in some 

 cases was necessary to keep construction costs (e.g. mobiliza- 

 tion) to a reasonable amount. Indian Point is an example of 

 an area where we had to build road two to three years ahead of 

 the logging in order to avoid unreasonably costly remobili- 

 zation. With relatively few opportunities for alternate means, 

 of mitigation to allow crossing fish streams outside the 

 three-month fish timing "window", we now realistically need to 

 maintain a winimum of 12 months of timber released ahead for 

 road construction and six months of timber roaded ahead for 

 logging.^ In any case, in order for you to offer the contractu- 

 ally required volume during the five year period the Forest 

 Service must release all of the timber (960 mmbf) for con- 

 struction and logging in not less than the first four years of 

 the five year period and those releases must be distributed 

 over those four years in a manner that will allow for the 

 orderly construction of the roads required and also allow for 

 a reasonably efficient logging operation (e.g., summer logging 

 at high elevation, winter logging at low elevation) . 



In the period from October 1, 1989 through September 17, 1990 

 the Forest Service released only 139 mmbf for harvest. Our 

 pipeline of timber released ahead has fallen from 79 mmbf on 



Southeast Alaska Conservation Council 

 Senate Bill 1877 

 July 10, 1996 



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