Speaker G
56:33 - 57:20
"you haven't provided any rationale for why all your policy, the policy you're proposing in which all lands become part of the timber base, you know, you've said, you've expressed that, but you really haven't provided a rationale for why you would want to do this."
“you haven't provided any rationale for why all your policy, the policy you're proposing in which all lands become part of the timber base, you know, you've said, you've expressed that, but you really haven't provided a rationale for why you would want to do this.”
- Speaker
- Speaker G
- Timestamp
- 56:33 – 57:20
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Haines
- Captured at
- June 3, 2026
From the transcript
And so far, you haven't provided any rationale for why all your policy, the policy you're proposing in which all lands become part of the timber base, you know, you've said, you've expressed that, but you really haven't provided a rationale for why you would want to do this. And, you know, as a management plan, you know, you say this is looking forward into the future. Well, you know, I'm not sure that you demonstrate, you know, that this is, you know, forward thinking. A lot of it reminds me of, you know, you know, some of the thinking of 20 or 30 years ago. You know, things are much different now.
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