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ALASKANS FOR JUNEAU 

 RESOLUnON 



WHEREAS the Ketchikan Palp Co;pQratioa has requested the United States 

 CoQgiTOS to extend Its fiAy year bog-tnin federal timber sale contract for harvest 

 of timber on federal lank within tibe Toagm National Forest, and 



WHEREAS KPC's aperaticm vakx die enstine lon^-tenn contract has resulted in 

 laise scale clearcuttiag of the Toofass's forests, to an extent incompatible with 

 other beneficial uses of the forest, inchiding recreatioo, fish and ^ame habitat, 

 tourism, and ticabct harvest by small vahie-added forest products companies; and 



WHEREAS KPC has repeatedly violated federal and state water and air quality 

 regulations, cootinues to do so. and has little Kkelihood of an early compliance 

 with such laws; and 



WHEREAS a cootinuatioo of KPC'a timber harvest levels and its poDutim levels 

 will become even more of a threat lo the legion's environmental and economic 

 health as the forest resoorces diminish in the comias ceatory; and 



WHEREAS a vita] and stable econooay for Sootbeast Abska depeads on a variety 

 of uses of the Toofiass National Forest, including small scale value-added forest 

 product manu^icturing, which are no( conq>atible with extension of KPC's long- 

 term contract, 



rr IS HEREBY RESOLVED by the Board of Directors of Alaskans for Juneau 

 that Alaskans for Jutieau opposes exteosioo of the long-term federal timber sale 

 contract of Ketchikan Pulp Corporation. 



Dated:^^<«n/,3.^//ff^ 

 attest:^^t«^,tJ^/), U k'tfS Ji^xim^ 



