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FEDERATION OF WESTERN OUTDOOR CLUBS







NO. 14
SENATE BILL 49 -- ALASKA WILDERNESS BILL
   





               

Senate Bill 49 introduced by Alaska senators Ted Stevens and Frank Murkowski endeavors to downgrade 12,000,000 acres of national parks, more than one-third of all Alaska parklands.  If this succeeds, all the nations parklands would risk similar downgrading.


The Alaska senators and their supporters argue that this merely allows hunting in areas so designated.  According to the National Parks magazine the beneficiaries would be 102 hunting guides and sport hunters wealthy enough to be flown into the remote areas.  Former Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus contends that S 49 is not a hunting issue at all but is a park issue.


Last year the Safari Club International, which strongly supports S 49 tried to get legislation introduced that would have opened all national parks in the system to hunting.


The National Parks & Conservation Association declares, "Environmentalists fear that if the Alaska parklands can be reclassified to accommodate hunters, any national park could be reclassified to accommodate any other special interest group.  To please a hundred hunting guides and their wealthy clients, environmentalists reason, Alaskan senators Ted Stevens and Frank Murkowski would jeopardize the entire National Park System.


Therefore, the Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs opposes Senate Bill 49 and urges the member clubs to write to their U.S. Senators to vote against the bill.







 
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