Alaska Bear Sanctuary
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The Juneau Chamber of Com
merce protests the move to es
tablish a brown bear sanctuary
on Admiralty and Chichagof is
lands, or either of them.
Without taking the bear by
the tail, the Post-Intelligencer,
always eager to help Alaska and
Alaskans in their aspirations,
here gives some of the argu
ments advanced by the Juneau
Chamber:
The two islands contain some
131/2 billion board feet of spruce
and hemlock, or 17*/2 per cent
of such timber in Southeastern
Alaska. The area proposed to be
set aside will produce 150,000,000
feet of timber crop each year in
perpetuity, enough to make 660
tons of newsprint paper daily.
Twelve hundred people find
livelihood on the islands now,
where there are now located
eight large salmon canneries,
three producing gold mines,
twelve such mines in process of
development, one small coal
mine, two sawmills, lour logging
concerns, four fur farms and
fifteen or twenty homesteaders.
The chamber points out that
development, none toe* far ad
vanced in the North as it i-s,
would receive a serious blow if
the resources of these two is
lands were to be locked up in a
government preserve or national
park.
It is claimed further that
brown and grizzly bears have
7,718 square miles of territory
already set aside as sanctuary
by the federal government, and
that this is ample natural range
to assure their preservation.
Sportsmen, nature lovers and
bears may rest assured that all
the facts will be brought out be
fore action is taken. And such
action as is finally decided upon
should give superior considera
tion to the economic welfare of
the hardy Americans who, a
gainst odds of nature and a
smothering bureaucracy, a 1 e
bravely carrying on the work of
development in Alaska.
When discouraged, examine
yourself and see if the trouble
isn’t that you feel too lazy to
try again.
Charles Benjamin
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