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Southeast Alaska Conservation Council 



SEACC • P.O. Box 021692 • Juneau. Alaska 99802 • (907-586-69421 



Washington. DC. Office: 



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801 Pennsylvania Avenue. S.E. 



Washington. D.C. 20003 



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Statement of 



SOUTHEAST ALASKA CONSERVATION COUNCIL (SEACC) 



Presented by 



LARRY EDWARDS, PRESIDENT 



SEACC BOARD OF DIRECTORS 



In support of S.346, the TONGASS TIMBER REFORM ACT 



and opposing S.237 



Before the 



SUBCOMMITTEE ON PUBLIC LANDS, NATIONAL PARKS AND FORESTS 



U.S. SENATE COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES 



FEBRUARY 28, 1989 



My name is Larry Edwards. I am speaking on behalf of the Southeast 

 Alaska Conservation Council (SEACC). SEACC would like to thank you for your 

 invitation to speak today. We greatly appreciate this opportunity to express 

 our strong support of S.346, the Tongass Timber Reform Act, and respectfully 

 urge this Committee to approve strengthening amendments. I am also speaking 

 in opposition to S.237 introduced by Senators Murkowski and Stevens. 



SEACC is a grassroots coalition of 13 conservation groups located 

 in 11 communities throughout the southeast Alaska region. Additionally, it 

 has over 900 individual members, mostly from southeast Alaska. SEACC was 

 founded in 1969 by Alaskans who had become alarmed by the increasing 

 destruction of important fish and wildlife habitat by large-scale logging. 

 For 20 years now, SEACC has been the leading voice for conservation in 

 southeast Alaska. In 1980, under the terms of Section 706(c) of the Alaska 

 Lands Act (ANILCA) , SEACC was the conservation group selected by Congress to 

 consult and cooperate with the Forest Service in preparation of the agency's 



lUNEAU CROUP SIERRA CLUB • LYNN CANAL CONSERVAnON Hiino • SITKA CONSERVATION SOCIETY 



ALASKA SOCIETTf OF AMERICAN FOREST DWELLERS, Pouii Bikei • FRIENDS OF BERNERS BAY. luneju • PEUCAN FORESTRY COUNCIL 



NARROWS CONSERVAnON COALITION Pcttiiburg • FRJENDS OF GLAOER BAY. Cusuvus • TONGASS CONSERVATION SOCIETY, Knchilun 



FALSE ISLAND- KOOK LAKE COUNCIL, TeniJtet; Springs • WRANCELL RESOURCE COUNQL • TAKU CONSERVATION SOQEn, Juneau 



