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GustavxLS 



Community 



Aesociation 



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, Post Otiice Box 62 



jj Gu5tavus, Al&flka 90836 



June 13, 1996 

 GonoraL Meeting ' 



Introduced by 

 Janes Kaclcovjak 



K tuEsaunioii fob the gost&vds (xmvssvn AssociAiia> 



OPPOSniG KXTEIISIQH OF THE LOUISIANA PArmC*8 MBUillM I PULP 

 COKVkKt SO-TEAB OQHTSACT WITH THE nCERU. OOVEBMOR 



WHEREAS, tho SO-yo&r contract currantly enjoy«^ by tha Lonlalana 



Pacific's Ketchikan Pulp Ccnfiany (IJ>K) gives that coqpany . 

 an unfair actvantAg« over coopctitors and exolueivs rights to 

 timber resources, and 



HHEaEAS, the terns of the contract were ncgnt^ ifltM in thn 19S0's and 

 are wholly inap{>roprlate today, and 



WHKKJCAS, CAnulna luLtipIa uea of th« Tocvjass (ipMnn Vcvtp^ thnt 

 provides for subsistence, tour in, indepeodeat tuabor 

 operators, and adequate fish and vlldllfs habitat protection 

 ia inoost>atlble with allowioq LPK tiabec oporatioos and 

 extended priority, and 



WHEREAS, areas near Gastavus, which ytara not in IfK's original contract 

 area, have already been identif jad to sux>ply LPK under the 

 original, contract, and 



WHEREAS, axtansion of the LPK contract would vastly increase pressure 

 for JEinediate large-scale clearcutting in areas nsar Gustavus, 

 and 



MHF.RFAS, the possibility of long-tent economic diversity and stability 

 for oar cooDunlty and the region would be hamed by the 

 extension of LFK's contract; 



THEREFORE BB IT RESOLVED that the GuBtavus Conminity Association hereby 

 opposes the extension of Louisiana Pacific's Ketchikan Pulp 

 Coatiany's BO-Tear Contract with the USDA Forest Service. 



•FKlo ncoolution Adopted Unaninously tbH nth Hfly 



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