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TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST MAP SHOWING WILDERNESS AND 

 WILDLAND MANAGEMENT AREAS 



* Added to the one million acres of State and Native lands and 

 excluded from multiple use management are lands managed as 

 roadless wilderness. 



* Colored tan are 8.8 million acres of forest land that are off-limits to 

 timber management: 



5.4 million acres are permanent Wilderness and 

 3.4 million acres managed for roadless recreation and 

 old growth ecosystem protection. 



* These areas have been set aside by Congress and the Forest Service, 

 removing 2/3 of harvestable forest from timber production. 



* Removing more than half the forest from multiple use management 

 forced loggers to look for timber in more remote areas or areas 

 requiring expensive fish and wildlife mitigation measures. 



In the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act Congress 

 decided to maximize the size of Wilderness areas and mitigate the loss 

 of timber and jobs through an annual off-budget investment in the 

 development of timber resources — called the 'Tongass Timber Supply 

 Fund". 



* Within the green area available for multiple use management, only 

 1.7 million acres. l/IO of the Tongass, can ever be managed for 

 timber production. This timber management area will be harvested 

 over and over again in 100 year cycles — producing twice the volume 

 as second growth. 



* Assertions that Tongass rain forest risks being clear-cut are totally 

 unfounded - 90% of the total forest and two-thirds of the high volume 

 timber will never be logged. 



