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On our local scene while 80% of our timber on Federal lands 

 on Prince of Wales Island are to be cut by the year 2004, we are desparetly 

 trying to protect the last of the last, wild places in our area of S E Alaska. 

 I will mention three of these areas, and then descibe each briefly. I would 

 also like to make clear that 23areas listed in S.346 deserve permanent protec- 

 tion of Wilderness or LUD 2 protective status. The three areas importent to 

 Pt. Baker are the Calder-Holbrook Wildlife Corridor ,Kuiu Island, and the 

 Outside Islands. 



While the rest of Prince of Wales Island is being logged to 

 the bone a small mountainous area of about 50,000 acers known as the Calder- 

 Holbrook Wildlife Corridor, is the most critical to the longterm subsistence 



our 

 needs of community, and other small villages also. Located along a well 



traveled waterway known as El Capitan-Dry Pass, it is used by commercial fisher- 

 man, subsistence hunters, who climb the steep, rugged peaks in hopes of bagging 

 a big fat Sitka-Blacktail deer. This area is the last virgfm fragment of what 

 was once a great forest. 



Mount Calder, Highest peak on Prince of Wales Island, at 3,860 feet. 



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