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addition to a moratorium in, or withdrawal 

 of, key areas, routine provisions for 

 wildlife need to be incorporated in 

 management prescriptions where timber is 

 the priority. These prescriptions need to 

 be designed to minimize habitat 

 fragmentation • 



Finally, with the exception of Admiralty 

 Island, the existing wilderness system 

 does not adequately represent critical 

 wildlife habitat due to the scarcity of 

 high-volume old-growth stands in those 

 wilderness areas. For example, only 

 68,496 acres of commercial forest land 

 within the wilderness system excluding 

 Admiralty Island are in volume classes six 

 and seven (greater than 3 0,000 board feet 

 per acre). That represents 7.5% of the 

 wilderness land base, excluding Admiralty 

 Island. 



