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| NO. 14 | SENATE BILL 49 -- ALASKA WILDERNESS BILL | |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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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