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Lynn Canal Conservation, Inc. 



Post Office Box 964 

 HiiiKS, Alukfl 99827 



RESOLUTION 96-617 



A RESOLUTION FROM LYNN CANAL CONSERVATION, INC. 

 OPPOSING THE PROPOSED IS- YEAR CONTRACT EXTENSION FOR 

 LOUISUNA PACIFIC'S KETCHIKAN PULP COMPANY 



WHEREAS, the SC^ycar contract currently nsed b; LouiaBrta Pacific's Ketchikan 



Palp Company (LPK) gives LPK an unfair markrt advantage over 

 Olber timber businesses and exclusive rights to timber resources; and 



WHEREAS, tfae terras of that contract were negotiated In J954 and are entirely 



inappropriate for today's market and natural resource conditions in 

 Sootheast Alaska; and 



WHEREAS, making LPK drober operations tbe priority for the management of 



tfae Tongass National Forest damages other multiple use resources 

 important for Sontfaeast Alaska's economy including subsistence, 

 toorism, recreation, fish and wUdUfe habitat; and 



WHEREAS, most of tfae timber to supply LPK's remaining contract will be logged 



in the northern Tongass, an area not in the contract for its timber 

 supply, indicating that logging in tfae specified KPC contract area is 

 not sostainable; and 



WFIEREAS, the economic base in flie northern Tongass, which includes 



comnerciai and sport fishing, recreation, tourism, and subsistence 

 hunting and fishing, win be dantagcd if unsustainable logging to meet 

 LPK's contract continues; and 



WHEREAS, LPK was convicted of a felony and 13 other charges due to violatioos 



of dean water and dean air laws in 1995; and 



WHEREAS, the long-term economic diversity and stabiUty of northern Southeast 



Alaslia and the entire Panhandle region w3l be damaged by the 

 proposed IS-year extension of LPK's timber contracL 



THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Lynn Canal Conservation, Inc., representing more 

 than 100 members in northern Southeast Alaska, opposes any extensioo of Louisiana 

 Pacific's Kelclnkan Pulp Company's 50-year contract with the VS. Forest Service. 



BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED (hat Louisiana Pacific's Ketchikan Pulp Company's 50- 

 year contract with tfae U.S. Forest Service should be revoked immediateiy due to breaches 

 of its contract 



BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution shall be mailed to Tony 

 Knowles, Governor of tfae State of Alaska. 



ADOPTED J UNE 17, 1996. <-H^^- 



EricUoHe 

 President 



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