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leeway must be given the Forest Service to engage in constant 

 dialogue with the industry, local officials and the public based 

 ou general statutory guiding principles and not specifically 

 legislated paramaters. 



My study in Japan last year taught me that we are not now and 

 will not compete with the Japanese way of doing business unless 

 you who govern make long term peace with industry, with worker, 

 with native, with environment, and with local citizen. 



Thank you for listening but two minutes was not enough time. 



1. C.L. Cheshire and Bryan Mangum, An Analysis of the Ketchikan 

 Economy, Economic Development Center, Ketchikan Community College 

 (renamed University of Alaska Southeast), June 1987, at page 31, 

 Table V. In contradistinction to the contribution of tourism, 

 the forest products industry contributes "2fc% of the basic 

 economy." Id. at 12. "The key ingredient for the financial 

 success of the [forest product] industry was and is the pulp 

 mill." Id. at 13. The Analysis should be read in its entirety 

 for it is more elegant and complete than I can be. A copy is 

 attached hereto to assist in understanding why the more 

 reflective members of this community so strongly support 

 continuation of the long term contract. 



