Stein, Alan

Fisherman, homesteader, activitist. Formed the Point Baker Assn. in 1973 when a group of local citizens joined to protest clearcut logging near Point Baker. PBA initiated a federal lawsuit in Dec. 1975, Zieske v Butz, which stopped clearcut logging near Point Baker and threatened all logging on the West Coast. Congress, conservation, and development interests were involved in a three-year struggle which resulted in the Alaska Lands Act of 1980. In 1989 Stein challenged the USFS Environmental Impact Statement and Record of Decision as they affected commercial clearcut logging of the trees along approximately 1,800 salmon streams in the Tongass National Forest and the plan to clearcut in the watershed of Prince of Wales Island, Salmon Bay. He organized the Salmon Bay Protective Assn. The SBPA won a U.S. District Court order prohibiting logging along Class I and II streams and succeeded in persuading the U.S. Congress and Alaska State legislature to pass 100 foot buffer strip streams in the Tongass National Forest.

From the description of Point Baker Association logging suit and forestry legislation lobby file, 1973-1993. (Alaska State Library). WorldCat record id: 42928973