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Forest Service adds Kake hearing on how roadless repeal could affect subsistence
The U.S. Forest Service will hold one more hearing on repealing the 2001 Roadless Rule, this time in Kake, the agency said Monday.
The Nov. 4 hearing, from 5 to 7 pm at the Organized Village of Kake Tribal Council Chambers, is for testimony on how ending the rule's limits on road building and logging could affect subsistence, according to the agency's updated release.
The agency is taking spoken testimony only. Written comments closed Oct. 6. Testimony becomes part of the record the Forest Service will consider for the final rule.
Kake is the sixth subsistence hearing and the only one left on the calendar. The others were in Ketchikan, Anchorage and online, plus one scheduled Monday in Craig, where the City Council asked Washington in September to keep the rule.
The 2001 rule generally bars new roads and logging in the roadless parts of national forests. In Alaska, that covers roughly 9.3 million acres of the Tongass, plus roadless land in the Chugach. Without it, each forest's own management plan would decide where roads and logging could go. The agency says repeal wouldn't by itself require a road or a cut anywhere.
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About Kake
Kake, known in Tlingit as Keex' Kwáan, is a Tlingit village on Kupreanof Island in Southeast Alaska. It is a subsistence salmon community and is known for one of the world's tallest one-piece totem poles.
Fish and game matters are decided locally through a fish and game advisory committee, which any voting-age resident can join by attending its meetings. Because so much of village life depends on subsistence, federal land decisions in the Tongass National Forest, such as changes to limits on roads and logging, are weighed here for their effect on hunting and fishing.
Kake is tied to the Organized Village of Kake tribal government and to the wider network of Southeast communities that share its reliance on the Tongass and on regional ferry and transportation services.