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Kuiu Island is a remote wilderness-class^all but unknown 

 exept to the crab, salmon, and longline commercial fisherman who frequent 

 its lonly shores. Kuiu is also on the migratory waterfowl flyway, its quite 

 coves busy in the early spring, and late fall with ducks, geese, and swans, 

 who all feed along the many tidal mudflats. But the USFS plans to spend 

 $3,850,000'',''to build roads and log-dumps for Alaska Pulp Co., so they can 

 access $262,060.00 dollars worth of timber over a ten year period!!! 

 It just does not make any sense. If S.346 is made into law ,Kuiu may be saved, 

 if not, then it too will be ruthlessly destroyed in yet another deficet 

 USFS timber sale. 



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The fate of the Tongass now rests with Congress, there is 

 much to be lost, and little to be gained by continuing the present USFS-LPK- 

 APC policy. The so called stuwards of our public lands, the USFS have failed 

 the publics trust and have proved that to them, the only good tree is a stump! 

 It is up to Congress to reform the twisted laws that allow this travesty 

 to continue. The 23areas all deserve the permanent protection that will save 

 them from becoming just another USFS deficet timber sale. After some 30 years 

 of highgrading the forest, bilking the taxpayer, destroying fish and wildlife 

 habitat, and acting the patsy for Japanese indusrealists, it is time the USFS 

 recicved a new mandate from Congress, on how to manage the Tongass National 

 Forest, one of the most spectacular regions in the United States. 



