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The time has come to remedy years of mismanagement of the country's 

 biggest and best of the national forests. The grandeur and mystique John Muir 

 felt so profoundly as he traveled the inside passages of Southeast Alaska over 

 a century ago should not succumb to a federally subsidized program of waste 

 that fails to accomplish what it was intended to do. The committee should end 

 the senseless practices of the Forest Service by acting quickly and favorably 

 on S. 346, and by adding language to protect 23 key areas pennanently . 



