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If you have anything to say to that, Ms. George, please state it. 



Ms. George. Thank you. Senator. It was our protection of Alas- 

 ka's subsistence,life style data, Alaska Native Indians. I feel like I 

 am protecting Admiralty Island. The good senators that came up to 

 protect them, the national monument of Admiralty Island. We 

 went into a lot of hardships as we exchanged land and to protect 

 the island for its resources of wildlife and we did not want any 

 timber cut on the island although we know it would have brought 

 in a lot of money to the community, but we are subsistence users 

 and have about 600 people in the village of Angoon. And we ex- 

 changed land so we could cut elsewhere to protect that national 

 monument. Our people have always thought to protect the land 

 that we live on because we live off the land, that is our life style. 



Thank you. 



Senator Wirth. Thank you very much. We appreciate all of you 

 coming and being here and your great patience. I think it has 

 taken much longer for the first panel than any of us had anticipat- 

 ed, but I think it has been very productive, and very helpful. We 

 thank you very much for being with us. As I pointed out earlier, 

 the record will be kept open for two weeks. If you feel as if there 

 are further items that you might like to add, we would appreciate 

 hearing from you. 



Some of you are going to give us some help on the boundaries, 

 and we would like the suggestions from you before you go. Thank 

 you very much. 



Senator Murkowski. I would like to add for the record that there 

 are approximately 1 million acres of wilderness on Admiralty that 

 will be maintained as wilderness in perpetuity. 



Ms. George. Yes. We thank you for that particular wilderness. 



Senator Wirth. If our next panel would come up. We will have 

 Art Woodhouse, superintendent of the Sitka School District; Robert 

 Hames, president of the Hames Corporation; Elaine Sunde, Sunde 

 Alaska Traditions; Charles Horan of Horan, Corak & Company; 

 and Thad Poulson, editor and publisher of The Sitka Sentinel. 



While they are coming in, the next panel could move into the on 

 deck circle: Mr. Bremmer, Ernestine Hanlon, Byron Mallott, James 

 Senna, Ron Sparks, Carlton Smith, and Austin Hammond. 



We are probably going to pick up in speed here very significantly 

 through that good opening discussion and clarification of a variety 

 of items for the record. So, Mr. Woodhouse, why do not we start 

 with you and the timer you are looking at? And away we go. 

 Thank you, sir. 



STATEMENT OF ART WOODHOUSE, SUPTERINTENDENT, SITKA 



SCHOOL DISTRICT 



Mr. Woodhouse. Thank you for giving us this opportunity. I ap- 

 preciate the assurances, Mr. Chairman, that we do not have to be 

 concerned about the closing of the pulp mills, because there is 

 nothing in your legislation that would necessarily cause that. How- 

 ever, I am sure there is nothing in the 50-year contracts that spoke 

 to only running 30 or 35 years either. So, if I belong to the Chicken 

 Little outfit, I hope you will excuse me. 



