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ENCROACHMENT OF WILDERNESS AREAS ON THE PUBLIC DOMAIN 

 RESTRICT AND RESTRAIN THE GROWTH OF THIS IMPORTANT INDUSTRY. 



TEN YEARS AGO WE WENT THROUGH THIS SAME EXERCISE WITH 

 THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANILCA. BESIDES THE ASSURANCE THAT THE 

 ANTI-DEVELOPMENT FORCES WOULD NOT BE BACK TO DARKEN OUR DOOR 

 AGAIN, THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY THAT ILL-CONCEIVED LEGISLATION 

 HAD A WELL-DEFINED AND CLEARLY MEASURABLE NEGATIVE IMPACT ON 

 ALASKA. IN THE YEARS BEFORE THE PASSAGE OF ANICLA, 

 EXPLORATION ALL OVER ALASKA WAS A MAJOR INDUSTRY. VERY 

 LARGE COMPANIES LIKE ANACONDA AND NORANDA WERE HERE TO SPEND 

 MILLIONS OF DOLLARS EACH YEAR IN THE ALASKA ECONOMY. LIKE A 

 GIANT OCTOPUS, ANICLA REACHED OUT AND CLOSED IMMENSE AREAS 

 OF IMMEASURABLE MINERAL POTENTIAL TO ANY FUTURE ACTIVITY, 

 AND THE EXPLORATION DOLLARS DRIED UP. 



GREENS CREEK AND QUARTZ HILL, WERE BOTH FOUND AS A 

 RESULT OF THAT ECONOMIC PARTICIPATION BY THE MAJOR MINING 

 COMPANIES OF THE WORLD. BOTH OF THOSE PROPERTIES WERE 

 INCLUDED IN NATIONAL MONUMENTS - AND THEIR INCLUSION WAS NO 

 ACCIDENT. A TOTAL OF SEVENTEEN AREAS IN THE TONGASS WERE 

 REMOVED FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN AT THAT TIME. AND WHEN THAT 

 IS COMBINED WITH THE MANAGEMENT STIPULATIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN 

 IMPOSED ON THE REST OF THE TONGASS, WE FIND A CHILLING 

 EFFECT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS INDUSTRY. 



