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STATEMENT OF STEVEN E. KALLICK 

 JUNEAD, ALASKA 



Testimony Before the United States Senate 



Energy and Natural Resources Committee 



Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks and Forests 



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Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee: 

 I consider myself exceptionally lucky to sit before you 

 today, with two minutes of your attention and a chance to speak 

 out as one of "the people of the Tongass." You have heard from 

 some of the people of the Tongass today; tomorrow in Sitka you 

 will hear from some of the others. But, tragically, you will not 

 hear from them all. Nor will you, in a few short days, get to 

 know the people and the place as we do, we who make this 

 phenomenally beautiful land our home, we who will live here the 

 rest of our lives. 



Contrary to what you might think from the public testimony 

 today, there are thousands of people living here, either in 

 rough-hewn cabins in isolated coves or comfortable apartment 

 buildings in Juneau, who did not come to Alaska just for a job. 

 They too are the people of the Tongass, but you will not hear 



