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Alaska Loggers Association, Inc. 



April 24, 1989 

 Ketchikan, Alaska 



111 STEDMAN. SUITE 200 . 

 KETCHIKAN, ALASKA 90901 

 PhoiM907-22S-ei14 



STATEMENT OP THYES SHAUB 

 ALASKA LOGGERS ASSOCIATION . 

 BEFORE THE SENATE ENERGY AND 

 NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE 



Mr. Chairman (and members of the Committee), my name is 

 Thyes Shaub. I am Government Affairs Director for the Alaska 

 Loggers Association(ALA) . (I am here today representing our 

 members made up of logging companies, sawmills and pulp mills 

 throughout Alaska, representing 107 separate companies with over 

 4,400 workers. In addition, there are 200 associate members which 

 employ several thousand persons both in Alaska and in the Lower 

 48.) 



ALA is especially pleased to have hearings held here in 

 Southeast Alaska so you can meet and hear members of our Associa- 

 tion and their employees testify. Our Association has submitted 

 prior testimony regarding the facts and policies involved in 

 Tongass legislation. However, the untold story is of the people 

 who have established a life style dependent upon a stable and 

 continuing supply of raw material for the timber industry. Please, 

 mark well what these people have to say — they are people who 

 follow a work ethic and life style that represents the best of 

 Alaska's traditions. Most of them will consider testifying before 

 you one of the most difficult experiences of their lives — but it 

 is also a measure of their concern. 



There are decent, hard working people who take others at 

 their word. In 1980, with the passage of the ANILCA legislation, 

 they were told the land allocations on the Tongass were settled 

 once and for all. 5.5 million acres were put into wilderness, 

 leaving the remaining land base insufficient to support the job 



SERVING ALASKA'S TIMBER INDUSTRY 



