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A'ITACHED TO AND ;'lA.DE A PART OF THE MINUTES OF THE ~ARD CI'l'Y COUNCIL
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Introduced: 2 / 25 / 74
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IN THE SEtlARD CITY COUNCIL BY B. C. HtJIX
RESOLUTION NO. 899
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A resolution opposing the Harding
Ice Field/Kenai Fjords National
5 Monument Proposal (DES No. 73-86)
6 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SEVlARD CITY COUNCIL:
7 WHEREAS, the National Park Service' proposal recognizes that the
8 Harding Ice Field/Kenai Fjords area has not been completely explored for it's
9 mineral potential (USGS Richter says "moderate potential tor small deposits" -
1 0 Land Use Planning Commission states "high potential") yet the National Park
1 1 Service I proposal concludes the area's mineral resource is meager and not
1 :2 feasible for developnent; and
1 3 WHEREAS, the National Park Service' proposal infers that lIining is
1 4 unlikely and unfeasible, timber harvest is not feasible and hunting is
1 5 minimal, yet their report concludes that Multiple Use Management would likely
1 6 create significant disruption of resources and eccosystems. The case does not
1 7 eupport their conclusion; and
1 8 WHEREAS, $27,000 in Gold was taken in 1973 from a mining operation
1 9 within "the area of ecological ooncem" along the Kenai Peninsula's Southern
2 0 littoral, where an investment of $230,000 has been made in this operation in
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2 2 WHEREAS, the National Park Service' proposal state.: "ot all the
2 :3 vegetation cover in the Harding Ice Field/Kenai Fjords area, onlT one ''.'If ot
2 4. 1% 18 suitable for t1lllber harYest (1500 acres), the Park Seme. would
2 5 prohibit the cutting of timber and other uses (?) which mq lead to lIIUlS.ft
2 6 destruction of plant lite in the IllOI1U11ent. n If one-half of 1% or 1500 ac:rw
2 7 ot timber were cut under Multiple Use Management, this could not be considered
2 8 "massive destruction" of plant lite in a 300,000 acre area; and
2 9 WHEREAS, contral"7 to the National Park Service' proposal, ccmaon
:3 0 knowledge dictates and it is axiomatic that biological productivity of an area
:3 1 does not lend itlMlt to permanent perpetuation because ot the enactment of
:3 2 legislation establishing a national monueot. Biological productivit,. is
:3 :3 dependent on such tactoN as habitat, predation, disease and perhaps hunting
:3 4. pressure on a particular species; and
:3 5 WHE~S, the Seward City Council and the Citisens of the Seward area
:3 6 8\lpport the concept of a Seward National Recreation Area tor the Harding Ice
:3 7 Field/Kenai Fjords area because of the unique terrian characteristics which
:3 8 lend theuelves to year-round boating activit,., professional, amateur and
:3 9 cro....country siding, and other lIDlimited snow-oriented Ncreational events;
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4 1 WHEREAS, Seward has been officially designated by the State of
4. 2 Alaska as the 'Fun Capital of Alaska' because of our outstanding surrounding
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4 , sea and land characteristics 80 suitable for recreational pll1'pOses, which
4 .. have and w:I.11 continue - given a chance - to enhance Seward's and the Kenai
4 5 Peninsula Borol1&h' e econcalc future; and
4 , WHEREAS, officials of the National Park Sernee DID NOT ottic1al1y
4., contact the Seward City Council, Seward's Advisory Planning Caudssion, the
4' Kenai PeD1nllUla Borough Administration, Kenai Peninsula Borough Planning
4 , CoBlllisaion, or the Kenai Peninsula Borough Asselllbl7, to detem1ne our input
S 0 for the beet uee of the Harding Ice Field/Kenai Fjorde area.
S I NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that it is the will of this Seward
S 2 City Council that we oppose the Harding Ice Field/Kenai Fjords National
5 3 Kon..nt proposal by the Natioaal Park Sernce becauee we support the K\1ltiple
5 4 Use KanageJDent philosophy for this area.
S S COPIES of this resolution shall be transmitted to the Honorable
S 6 Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States; the Honorable Earl But.,
5 ., Secretary of Agriculture; the Honorable Rogers C. B. Morton, Seoretal'1 of the
5 . Interior; the Honorable Mike Mansfield, Senate Majority Leader; the Honorable
5' Carl Albert, Speaker of the Houee of Representatives; Chairman ot the U. S.
6 0 Senate and U. S. House Interior and In8ular Affairs CClIIEittees; the Honorable
6 1. Mike Gravel; the Honorable Ted Stevens; Honorable Don Young, Alaska's
6 2 Ccmgressioaal Delegation; the Honorable Wi1HJlW\ A. Egan, Govemor ot Alaeka;
6 3 all members of the Alaska Legislature; Mr. Ted Bingham, Executive Director of
6 4 the Land Use Planning COB&ission; Mr. Joe Josephson, State designee to the
6 5 Land. Use Planning COJllIIIisa1on, and Mr. 'l'beodor R. Swem, Chairman, Alaska
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ADOPm> BY THE SEWARD CITY COUNCIL mIS J;i;. DAY OF ~ ~ I' I
1974
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MAYOR 0' SEWABD
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