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Goose Flats is an extremely important area for local and visiting siwrt hmiti-rs, 

 subsistence hunting and fishing and coninercial crabbing. 



Trap Bay is iirportant locally for subsistence and recreation. In addition, it is 

 one of the most breathtakingly beautiful areas in Southeast. Forest Service plans 

 to clearcut Trap Bay, despite the small amount of timber available, have left 

 even local loggers bewildered. 



Tenakee Springs also requests the addition of an amendment to the Tongass Tirnl^r 

 Reform Act. Tenakee is an isolated village unconnficted to any other road system. 

 We wish to retrain that way. Tenakee 's charm, its very identity depr-nfls upon 

 renaining isolated. Yet, the Forest Service insists on shoving a road conned; ion 

 down our throats. We request that a single line be added to the Tonyaas Bil 1 to 

 "prohibit the interconnection of the Indian River Rr>ad or any other road thai 

 crosses the c»rporate boundaries of Tenakee Springs with any ot,her road syslim". 



Having unnecessary roads forced on us, being told l>y the Forest Service tliat our 

 conrunity's needs are uniitportant or that "Tenakee doesn't know what cle.iix;utting 

 is... yet", underscore the preference given to tlie timber industry interests. As 

 one resident put it, "The Tongass is being managed under a policy of 

 confrontation and revenge" . 



Senator Wirth, thank you for introducing your bill for reform in the Tongass. It 

 is tiitie to bring rational management to the Tongass National Forest. 



