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WHEREAS, SrtkA is the largest subsistence community in Alaska, and the 



harvest and sharing of subsistence foods and matahal« are vial to 

 the culture, economy, and wefl-beinQ of our community; and 



WHEREAS, it is widely believed the imminent logging wil cause negative 



impacts to subsistence and other forest uses thsit are rreversble 

 within the span of marty human generatiorK; and 



WHEREAS, ail the streamt and astuwtes In Soutt^east Alaska rBpresant the 

 richest hablat for an ou* fisheries, they deeerve al the protection 

 we can provMe; and 



WHEREAS, about 88 peroerrt of the originaihigh-voiunie timber per acre forest 

 (wtiich fbrmerty was habitat of highest importance for mnntainins 

 silMistence hunting arvj flshlng and other forest uses) has already 

 been removed by logging fixxn the Sitka Local Use Area; and 



WHEREAS, Friends of Southeast's Future is opposed to dear-cut log^ng in the 

 Sitka Local Use Area, we are opposing the Poison Cove and 

 Nortfiwest Baranof Timber Sales; and 



WHEREAS, we believe selling ansa trees to LPK to be detrimental to Sitka's 

 economy, that rather the harvesting of eecond-growth, with value- 

 added productton performed by Sitkans is prefemad; and 



WHEREAS, old growth must be left for habitat, siAnlstenoe, tourism, recreatkn, 

 ftshenes and cunural needs; and 



WHEREAS, the 'SXka Local Use ArBa* is the area from Broad Creek and Ushk 

 Bay southward down the west skle of Baranof Islarxl, inclucfing 

 adjacent isteinds, to Wixiy Passage (speciic^. Forest Service 

 Vakj^ Comparison Units 24e, 279-281. 287-290, 299-313. 318- 

 325. and 349-351, 



THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Friends of Southeast's Future opposes 

 any extenskm of Louisiarvi Pacific's Ketchlcan Pulp Compan/s SO-year contract 

 with the U.S. Forest Service 



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