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Brothers case, describes the pulp mills action towards truly independent 



loggers : 



We were angry. We could see what was happening to all 

 of our friends. We were the last ones to go down. What 

 they would do is pay them for their logs and then 

 after they had gotten them going, they would pay them 

 less than they knew it cost to log- -deliberately- -to 

 make them go broke. Then, they would take the outfit 

 over, hire the person who owned it as a manager and 

 continue to pretend that it was an independent logging 

 firm. For political reasons it was important for the 

 companies to have that image. 



Don Finney, now the general manager of the Alaska Loggers Association, was the 



man who terminated the Reid Brothers contract with the Ketchikan pulp mill. 



Finney also wrote the infamous "smoking gun" memorandum in 1974 proposing to 



divide up the forest between the two pulp mills in order to prevent "outside" 



interests from competing with them. This memo was a key piece of evidence 



used in by the federal court to convict the two pulp mills in the Reid 



Brothers case. Today, the two pulp mills and their subsidiary sawmills make 



up about 80% of the mill capacity of Southeast Alaska and consume 



approximately 90% of the logs processed in the region. 



SEACC NEVER AGREED TO A "DEAL" IN 1980. One frequently heard claim is that 

 ANILCA Section 705 was a great compromise which the environmental community is 

 now going back on - - that "a deal is a deal." The language of Section 705 was 

 never reviewed by any congressional committees, nor subject to any hearings 

 despite four years of intense Congressional action leading up to passage of 

 ANILCA in 1980. 



SEACC never agreed to Section 705 in 1980. We consistently spoke 

 out against this section at the time. For instance, the SEACC Board of 



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