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For example, removal of the Calder-Holbrook area (over 

 60,000 acres containing 440 million board feet) would 

 drastically disrupt current KPC operations and would require 

 expenditure of many million of dollars in moving costs, even 

 should adequate volumes of replacement timber be made 

 available. Removal of the Nutkwa area (nearly 54,000 acres 

 containing 380 million board feet of merchantable timber) from 

 itiultiple-use management makes breach of the KPC contract much 

 ihore likely, as portions are scheduled for harvest during the 

 1990*s. The same can be said about the Karta area which covers' 

 almost 39,000 acres. 



Simply stated, proponents of massive land withdrawals and 

 reductions in the mandated timber base necessary to maintain a 

 viable timber industry in Southeast Alaska have but one real 

 goal in mind — the destruction of the timber industry in 

 Southeast Alaska. Congressional agreement to such proposals 

 would have an absolutely devastating effect, not only on KPC 

 but also upon all of Southeast Alaska. Such proposals are both 

 unfair, given past Congressional actions regarding the Tongass, 

 and unwise from a policy standpoint. 



Finally, it should be noted that even if Congress should 

 decide as a general matter to withdraw areas from multiple-use 

 management on the Tongass, the areas listed in current 

 legislative proposals are much too large and are not rationally 

 based. The simple fact of the matter is that timber harvesting 

 and other resource values can both exist on such areas as 

 Calder-Holbrook, Nutkwa and Karta. KPC has shown a willingness 



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