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for additional salmon enhancement programs and provide 

 undisturbed salmon habitats for scientific study. 



These areas would be managed and protected by 

 the agencies involved long into thj future. Sealaska 

 recommends using the language and characteristics 

 outlined in the definition of LUD II of TLMP to draft a 

 law protecting these areas. 



In addition, due to the subsistence and 

 exceptional commercial fisheries use of the Outside 

 Islands; Baker, Lulu and Noyes Islands, deserve 

 protection as conservation areas. 



7. Sealaska recommends adjustments in public policy 

 related to the allocation and administration of the 

 federal timber supply in the Tongass Forest. Such 

 policy adjustments would require changes in the Long- 

 Term Contracts. As a result this would require the 

 USFS to make changes in the administrative approach 

 currently used with regard to the management of the 

 long-term contract timber allocation, SBA sales and 

 independent sales. 



The administration of the forest, the federal 

 appropriation process and the availability of the 

 timber supply to manufacturers and independent loggers 

 would be significantly changed. A "level playing field" 

 would provide the opportunity for all interested 

 parties to compete for purchase of public resources 

 through independent sales programs. The result would 

 be a forest management system similar to other forests 

 in America. The opportunities for the pulp mills to 

 secure fiber supply would partially come from private 

 sources, and from other independent timber sales, as 

 well as their own independent timber sales purchases. 



8. Notwithstanding the current efforts to legislate 

 fundamental policy changes through the Tongass Reform 



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