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Multiple Use Act and the National Forest Management Act, the Forest Service has 

 yet to bring them into compliance with those laws. 



In 1981, these companies were found guilty In federal district court of 

 conspiracy in restraint of trade, collusion, and anti-trust violations. The 

 court ruled that they had conspired to run independent loggers operating in the 

 Tongass out of business and bilked the government out of $80 million in timber 

 receipts. They had assumed control of over 90% of the Tongass -based timber 

 processing industry, a position they continue to enjoy today. 



In the third Important step toward responsible stewardship of this unique 

 and dynamic forest is the permanent protection of valuable old growth 

 rainforest. We believe that the 23 areas for which S. 346 prescribes a 

 moratorium on logging until the Tongass Land Management Plan (TLMP) is revised 

 should be designated wilderness by Congress. 



Although the Chief of the Forest Service admits that ANILCA "certainly 

 doesn't mandate a harvest," the Forest Service is spending the money to build 

 "advance roads" [or "pre -roads" which the Forest Service has now taken to 

 calling "public work roads"] in pristine wild drainages in order to gain access 

 to still more unnecessary timber sales. Many foresters privately admit that 

 they are merely following an unwritten agency direction to road every unlogged 

 drainage possible by 1989, the year the Forest Service may consider new 

 wilderness and roadless designations. 



This unwritten policy is clearly explained in a letter from Interior 



Committee Chairman Morris Udall to then- Secretary of Agriculture Richard E. 



Lyng on July 31, 1986: 



...according to its own Tongass Land Management Plan Evaluation 

 Report, the Forest Service built roads into nearly one -fourth of 

 all the roadless value comparison units (VCU's) in land use 

 designations III and IV between 1979 and 1984. Assuming a 100-year 

 timber rotation, this indicates the Forest Service has been 

 following a timber road construction policy that Is neither prudent 

 forestry nor prudent multiple use management. 



At the current pace, roads will be built within another 15 years in 

 virtually every roadless area on the Tongass. Under standard 

 practices for harvesting the Tongass on a 100-year rotation, it 

 should be many decades before all management areas would need to be 

 roaded. It appears, therefore, that the Forest Service is 

 constructing new roads into roadless watersheds at a rate far in 

 excess of that which is necessary. 



