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My name is Joseph Sebastian, I am a small boat salmon fisherman 

 from Point Baker .Alaska on N. Prince of Wales Island. I am here to speak on the 

 behalf of the Point Baker Community Association. 



Our small fishing village is perched on the salt water ocean 

 inlet of Sumner Striaght.and contains some fifty people in all . Most people 

 in Pt. Baker are fisherman, trollers or gillnetters, or storekeepers, fish- 

 buyers and older longtermAlaskans bordering on retirement. Many of us still 

 live in an old time Alaskan fashion dependent on Alaskas fish and wildlife 

 for a good portian of our diet. The ocean laps our front porch and the forest 

 starts out our back doors. Blackbear and deer still spill out on our local 

 beaches, wolves have been spotted within half a mile of our village, but now 

 the massive clearcuts have all but wipedout the^local forestlands we depend 

 on. 



Many people out here are dissatisfied with the present U S F S 



policy regarding Section 705 ANILCA. The cut and run attitude of the two , 



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pulp mills can only last a few more years before destroying the ecologicaly^of 

 the Tongass we all rely upon. The two fifty year contracts along with Sec. 705 

 will bankrupt our forest and wildlife resouftcE by the end of the longterm 

 contracts in the year 2011. Our wild places in S.E.Alaska are shrinking rapidly 

 under the abusive 'Intensive Management' of the USPS and LPK and APC. 

 The same mistakes are committed year after year like clock-work, due to the 

 inflexable design and intent of Sec. 705. With a changing land-use ethic taking 

 place, many small communities are taking steps to protect areas that have 

 traditional and historic use. Our local hunting grounds, fishing grounds, 

 boat anchorages, or recreational areas are being threatend and or destroyed 

 by the policy s of ANILCA Sec. 705. 



The fact is the twD fifty year contracts were based on error, and 

 over-blown estmates with little regard for other forest uses's. At the tmE.jyState "la^^s select- 

 -ions, subsistence areas or viable wildlife habitat were unheard of. Local recreation was 

 overlooked, because many little cannunities were just being founded, the possibilities of 

 tourisn were still just developing. After thirty odd years, much has changed in S.E.Alaska, 

 and the land ethic in the Tongass needs to be brought up to date to reflect the needs of 

 taiarrow and the Alaska we wish to see entering the year »11. Yet the two over generous contract^ 

 renain in place, outdated and over expliotive even in this year 198?. It's sickenijig to see this 

 rare and valuable tinber resource being sold for $ 1.48 per thousand board feet to Japanese 

 corperations , ^Ao leave us with wrack and ruin of ecological disaster, Oiile the tiirher and 

 profits go to Japan. It is extremely poor management and poor govemnent, to impoverish 

 Alaskan timber lands at a deficet to our tax-payers and to the enrichient of the Japanese. 



