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RESOLUTION NQ. uQ u}^ 



Submltled by: Yokulal ANB-ANS camp 13 \ ^ 



WHEREAS, 14 Southeast communities have passed resolutions 

 condemning the 450 MMBF annual mandatory cut on the Tongass 

 Forest; and, 



WHEREAS, the Tongass Timber supply funds is allowing the U.S. 

 Forest Service to road areas in rural Southeast which is largely 

 contrary to local desires and is competitevley detrimental to 

 . regional and village corporation logging; and, 



■■'whereas, the long term economic viability of Southeast's timber 

 resource must be based upon market values rather than by 

 government mandate and mandatory subsidy; and, 



NOW, therefore, be it resolved by the membership of the ANB 

 and ANS camp 13 that the mandatory 450 MMBF cut be eliminated and 

 another method of timber allocation be instituted which wil truly 

 benefit, on a sound economical and enviromental basis, a majority of 

 the communications in Southeast; and, 



BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Tongass Timber supply fund be 

 thoroughly re-evaluated so that so that true multiple use of 

 resources (timber, fisheries, tourism, wildlife and subsistence) be 

 achieved in concert with local community needs and desires; and, 



BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that all commercial users of the Tongass 

 Timber resource have equal access allocation contracts and not a 



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