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SEACC!!!!

OK, I have been enjoying outdoor time lately and have been too tired each night to get a post up.

Back to SEACC...I've been researching a bit about their "successes."

If you go to their site: http://www.seacc.org/ they proudly boast about taking down our two pulp mills in Southeast Alaska. Costing hundreds of jobs instantly and thousands of Alaskan jobs that are related to the timber industry. Costing us millions in tax dollars and millions in money that would have been spent supporting our local businesses.

I grew up in Ketchikan and Juneau and let me tell you...The people that held those pulp mill jobs and the lumberjacks themselves took great pride in the job they were doing. They took great pride in the fact they were harvesting an incredible renewable resource. They took pride in the fact they were providing timber and paper to Americans so we wouldn't be dependent on Asian timber and pulp.

Now, thanks to SEACC millions of acres of trees are being destroyed in Asia and Siberia with no chance of recovery because they are being managed by corrupt governments and aren't being reseeded. There is no regulation over there.

If you go to the lands that Louisiana Pacific harvested back in the 70's and 80's around Ketchikan they are ready to be harvested again.

I ask you this: "How in the world is SEACC helping when you look at it from this perspective?"

They will show you some propoganda photos of some clear cut areas on Chichigof and Admiralty Islands where one of the Native Corporations did some irresponsible cutting.

Nothing but propoganda and it couldn't be further from the truth.

Now, here in Juneau and surrounding villages we are getting the same kind of treatment.
Soon we will be dependent on nothing but tourism because they won't stop with Kensington.

They have been quietly working behind the scenes to stop the road. They move money around amonsgt their other partner companies: Earthjustice, Sierra Club, Alaska Society of American Forest Dwellers, Chichagof Conservation Council Customary, Traditional Gathering Council of Kake, Friends of Berners Bay, Friends of Glacier Bay, Juneau Audubon Society, Lisianski Inlet Resource Council, Lower Chatham Conservation Society, Lynn Canal Conservation, Narrows Conservation Coalition, Prince of Wales Conservation League, Sierra Club, Juneau Group, Sitka Conservation Society, Taku Conservation Society, Tongass Conservation Society, Wrangell Resource Council or the Yakutat Resource Conservation Council...

My guess is that most of these locals aren't that gullible and SEAC has set up these "local" groups to sound more powerful...

They even have a program calling for their members to make them the beneficiaries to their life insurance policies, wills, retirement plans, and get this...they want fishermen to pass on their IFQ's! HAHAHAHA...(Wiping tears away)

The biggest challenge we face as Juneauites and Alaska Natives is that we all have families to support and activities to do with our kids. Basically, we have life to live....

SEACC's "job" is to defeat our ability to make our lives better by preventing development in mining and timber.

They have teams of lawyers writing grant applications...They claim to be a "non-profit" and have accountants cooking the books to keep up the appearance...They have folks that get a hold of young, maleable minds and coerce them into thinking that by coming up here and fighting the "good" fight that they doing a noble, worthwhile thing...

I guess the least these young granolas could do would be to at least shower once a week...

I am forwarding this post to Russel Heath and giving him a chance to respond...I will post anything he sends me...propoganda or not.