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relationship to our own individual views. We of course appreciate 

 and are sensitive to and I know that I have taken one side of the 

 issue and bear the responsibility for taking that side of the issue. 



My colleague, Senator Wirth, has taken the other side of the 

 issue and we are obviously going to have to be held responsible as 

 we address and resolve and one of the things about legislation is 

 that we all know Senator Burns is more often than not kind of like 

 compromise, say like sausage. No one wants to see sausage being 

 made but it is part of the process. 



Michelle indicated her concern and the beautiful mountain I can 

 recall, having seen as a child with my mother, a great accomplish- 

 ment, yet the realization that people have to live — Michelle, you 

 did not indicate your particular affiliation but it is important that 

 people obviously have a lifestyle and the gentleman from Alaska 

 discovers there is a job to do in this tourism in Alaska and wants 

 to see Alaska in its pristine state, even though it is a seasonal situ- 

 ation. It is a very dramatically-growing industry and I just want to 

 point out one thing more, Mr. Chairman, that the difference of 

 opinion that exists here has been so eloquently expressed by the 

 witnesses. 



Senator Wirth. I agree with you, that was a great cross section. 

 We had a good audio-video tape of everybody watching. 



Senator Murkowski. At some point in time we will have to make 

 a decision. 



Senator Wirth. All right, moving right along, the next panel, 

 David Woodie, Pauline Lee, Sara Hannan and Steven Kallick, Judy 

 Brakel and Ed Lapeyri and on deck, if you would move in, Jim 

 Byron, Gary Robinson, Pauline Green and Tom Winter, J.C. Mac- 

 Millan and Richard Burrell. 



Why don't we start with all of you, Mr. Woodie here? 



STATEMENT OF DAVID WOODIE 



Mr. Woodie. My name is David Woodie and for the past thirteen 

 years I have lived and worked in the woods in southeast Alaska. I 

 have worked in a lot of different camps and am pretty familiar 

 with the timber industry here. Contrary to the industry propagan- 

 da, the corporations working on 50-year contracts have not lived up 

 to their end of the bargain. 



Anyone who has lived for long on Prince of Wales can tell you 

 how the two pulp corporations consolidated their monopoly of the 

 timber industry in the 1960s. A civil judgment brought against 

 them for anti-competition practices amazingly led to no criminal 

 charges. Apparently they are above the law. 



Corporate giants act like absentee landlords. A few years ago 

 when Louisiana Pacific planned to restart the logging camp at 

 Little Naukati local people were told we could no longer use the 

 dock. I had been using the dock for ten years. For residents of the 

 area it was the only access to the Prince of Wales road system. 

 Contractors pursuing forestry work had rented trailers from 

 former residents of the camp. They were simply told to vacate im- 

 mediately as the camp would be razed to make room for new con- 

 struction. This occurred on public land. 



