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H.R. 3560, The Southeast Alaska Native Land Entitlement Finalization Act
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Myla Poelstra, Edna Bay Alaska
This bill should not pass as currently written because it stands to destroy a 26yr state sponsored subsistence community whose only access to support their livelihood is included in a land transfer from the US Forest Service to Sealaska Corp., a for profit private timber company whose liability risks will not allow residents access to this land if it becomes theirs. This same land contains fragile caves & karsts unlike anywhere else in the world. The total acreage on Kosciusko Island Sealaska is seeking is over 32,000 acres, which includes some of the largest old growth spruce in the state.
Sandy Powers, Ketchikan, Alaska
HR 3560 would allow unbridled Native corporation logging on North Prince of Wales, already heavily logged. It would deny access, hunting and fishing to residents on POW whose livelihoods depend on the area. The only access road to communities on the north end of POW is FH 20, a public road that would become unavailable, cutting off Point Baker and Port Protection from the rest of POW and eliminating their subsistence area. Recreation access for residents and visitors would be off-limits. This bill completely ignores the needs of POW residents.
Small, well-managed Forest Service timber sales to small local sawmills, economic due to the existing roads, would unavailable in the area. The mills would close and the lumber they supplied to locals would be gone.
The Sealaska ANCSA land issue should be resolved, but not at the expense of the communities and residents of POW. North POW should be completely dropped from this bill, and land selections be made from the original areas first.