George
80:26 - 81:30
“it kind of flies in the face of the concept of management plan if you set something up where you classify the lands for different management purposes, so you have recreation, you have wildlife and. And other categories, and then you say, but by the way, we can, even though we're managing this for one purpose, we can turn around and change all that.”
- Speaker
- George
- Timestamp
- 80:26 – 81:30
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Haines
- Captured at
From the transcript
Okay, so a couple quick comments I'd like to make is it kind of flies in the face of the concept of management plan if you set something up where you classify the lands for different management purposes, so you have recreation, you have wildlife and. And other categories, and then you say, but by the way, we can, even though we're managing this for one purpose, we can turn around and change all that. Well, that undermines the whole management intent of this plan because you're not really managing it for other uses. You're temporarily managing it, but can flip that upside down at any moment if you'd like to. It makes no sense, particularly because there's no demonstration since the last plan in which you didn't have that policy, the same law existed, but that policy didn't exist, that every classification would be open for timber harvest.
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