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Sealaska Factsheet

Apr 12, 2012

Factsheet on Sealaska Lands Bill. This legislation would make thousands of acres of the most important lands in the Tongass National Forest available for development by Sealaska Corp., a for-profit entity.
 

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Sealaska Bill: A Step Backward for Southeast Alaska

Jul 14, 2011

We were sitting at the kitchen table of a B&B on Prince of Wales Island a few years ago when the owner – a former logger – looked me straight in the eye and asked about an idea that could improve his future: “Do you think other people want to do this?”

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Tongass National Forest: A better future for this Alaskan gem?

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

 

I have never visited the Tongass National Forest, and there’s probably a good chance that I never will. But like many other silence-evoking places, I find both comfort and pride in knowing it exists today much as it did in the past.

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Land grab masked as a national security measure passes U.S. House of Representatives

Anonymous
Jun 19, 2012

Anti-wilderness package also allows logging in California roadless areas, clear-cutting of old growth forests in Alaska and virtually rent-free grazing on public lands

Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed a package of anti-wilderness bills (H.R. 2578), including H.R. 1505, the “National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act.” 

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Sustainability and long-term economic viability for Southeast Alaska at risk under new timber bill

Anonymous
May 25, 2011

The following statement from Austin Williams, Alaska Forest Program Manager for The Wilderness Society, is in response to the hearing on S. 730, the Southeast Alaska Native Land Entitlement Finalization and Jobs Protection Act, or Sealaska bill.

“We recognize and support Sealaska Corporation’s right to claim its outstanding acreage from the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, but it should not be allowed to re-write the rules and force American taxpayers to foot the bill.

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Controversial Murkowski/Young Bills Would Harm Southeast Alaska Jobs

Anonymous
Apr 7, 2011

The Wilderness Society strongly opposes legislation that was proposed by Senator Lisa Murkowski yesterday in the United State Senate and by Representative Don Young in the House.  Commonly called the Sealaska Lands Bill, the proposed law would threaten the real economic engines  of Southeast Alaska—fishing, recreation, and tourism—and would gut the U.S. Forest Service’s vision for the Tongass, America’s largest national forest.

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America’s Rainforest Under Threat: How Alaska’s Tongass National Forest needs your help

Mar 5, 2010

Centuries before chainsaws were invented and logging corporations founded, the towering trees of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest were growing. Trees that soar to the sky today were already shooting into adolescence when Columbus sailed the seas.

The gentle giants amaze visitors with their arresting size — some trunks are as big as dining room tables — but these rare trees are a disappearing breed.

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