Point Baker Association logging suit and forestry legislation lobby file, 1973-1993.

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Point Baker Association logging suit and forestry legislation lobby file, 1973-1993.

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Correspondence, newspaper clippings about Point Baker, Zieske v Butz, buffer strips on streams, legislation and lobbying materials, state and federal agency memos, and position papers on salmon stream protection measures; resolutions of the United Fishermen of Alaska, the Alaska State Legislature, conservation groups; testimony of Alan Stein before the U.S. Senate and House committee of Agriculture, his notes, and other materials.

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Alaska State Library

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United Fishermen of Alaska.

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Folta, Richard C., 1935-

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United States. Forest Service. Alaska Region

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Point Baker Association.

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Stein, Alan

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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 Imp...