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 Senator Wirth. Ms. Canterbury. 



STATEMENT OF JACKIE CANTERBURY, REPRESENTING THE 

 TONGASS CONSERVATION SOCIETY 



Ms. Canterbury. Mr. Chairman, my name Jackie Canterbury 

 and I live in Ketchikan. I am here representing the Tongass Con- 

 servation Society, which is a diverse large member group here in 

 Ketchikan. As an educator I have spent many years on Prince of 

 Wales Island at which time my interest and suspicions began con- 

 cerning the mismanagement of the Tongass National Forest. 



The Tongass Conservation Society applauds Senator Wirth for 

 your introduction of S. 346 and we know there is strong support for 

 this bill. Like many individuals in southeast Alaska we are contin- 

 ually saddened by the loss of habitat that is occurring here in this 

 magnificent country. 



The most difficult to understand, however, is that this misman- 

 agement continues to occur despite our levels of knowledge and ex- 

 periences of the past. 



What I would like to show you is a photograph of Staney Creek. 

 Like hundreds of other streams on the Tongass this is forever 

 changed due to Forest Service logging practices. I know that some- 

 body mentioned this earlier, this is a creek on the west side. On 

 Prince of Wales Island, this is what it looks like in denuded form, 

 and as I say there are hundreds of miles of scenes like this. 



If you look down here you can see the campground, what I call 

 the campground in the clearcut, it looks like this. 



[Shows film.] 



Ms. Canterbury. And this is the multiple-use concept of the 

 management on the Tongass, complete with a latrine here and two 

 picnic tables in a clearcut. [General laughter.] 



I will say this for the record, now these are the Nutkwa drainage 

 and I believe one of the distinguished guests mentioned it as one of 

 the areas they wanted to keep in perpetuity. It is beautiful and this 

 is one of the 23 areas and beautiful drainage areas that was men- 

 tioned and the fisheries called Nutkwa. I also heard them say that 

 Karta is a very well used subsistence in sport fishing and Naha 

 and Sarkar were observed recently — counted about 100 swans, is 

 also a very productive area in our local sports fishing and also this 

 observers to birds. 



Now the last thing I want to say is that it an interesting feeling 

 to be appealing to a Senator from Colorado to save your own back- 

 yard. The Tongass Conservation Society believes Senator Murkow- 

 ski is pretty much ignoring a lot of the concerns of many people 

 that are dependent on other non-timber values in the forest and I 

 think it has been heard today by such as fishing groups. 



I work in the tourism industry in the summer so you can throw 

 me in with that group. Unfortunately, the Tongass Conservation 

 Society was unaware that it could have submitted the names of all 

 its members for the lottery drawing. Senator Wirth, I have been 

 asked to deliver these statements — for the least inconvenience I 



