Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, and Conveyance of Lands in Alaska: Hearing Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, on S. 501 ... S. 744 ... April 15, 1999, Volume 4 |
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activities Alaska Natives Alaska State Legislature Alaska Statehood Act ANILCA BARRY Bartlett Cove Bay National Park bill boats CHAIRMAN Chugach closed closure commercial fisheries commercial fishermen commercial fishing Committee Congress continued cruise ship cultural Dungeness crab environmental Federal Government fish and wildlife fisheries management fishing and gathering fishing in Glacier funding Glacier Bay National Glacier Bay proper going halibut harvest HESSION higher education Hoonah Huna impact issue legislation Loescher marine ment million acres Morrill Act National Park Service navigable waters NPCA opportunity oppose park resources percent PREPARED STATEMENT protection public lands record regulations residents salmon school lands SEACC Sealaska Sealaska Corporation selections Senator BUNNING Senator Murkowski Southeast Alaska specifically State's submerged lands subsistence fishing subsistence rights Tanner crab testimony Thank timber tion tional Park Tlingit Tongass National Forest University land University of Alaska university system waters of Glacier WHEELER wilderness waters
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Page 90 - It is hereby determined and declared to be in the public interest that (1) title to and ownership of the lands beneath navigable waters within the boundaries of the respective States, and the natural resources within such lands and waters, and (2) the right and power to manage, administer, lease, develop, and use the said lands and natural resources all in accordance with applicable State law be, and they are hereby, subject to the provisions hereof, recognized, confirmed, established, and vested...
Page 51 - ... to subsistence uses of a particular fish or wildlife population only if necessary for reasons of public safety, administration, or to assure the continued viability of such population. For purposes of this section, the term "temporarily" shall mean only so long as reasonably necessary to achieve the purposes of the closure.
Page 47 - ... men, women, and children swarmed out of the hut, and awaited our approach on the beach. One of the hunters having brought his gun with him, Kadachan sternly rebuked him, asking with superb indignation whether he was not ashamed to meet a missionary with a gun in his hands. Friendly relations, however, were speedily established, and as a cold rain was falling, they invited us to enter their hut. It seemed very small and was jammed full of oily boxes and bundles ; nevertheless, twentyone persons...
Page 5 - September fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-one, and in lieu of the swamp-land grant made by the Act of September twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty, and section twenty-four hundred and seventy-nine of the Revised Statutes, and in lieu of the grant of thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress, made by the Act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, Twelfth Statutes at Large, page five hundred and three, which grants are hereby declared not to extend to...
Page 47 - ... black eyes peering at us through a fog of reek and smoke made a novel picture. We were glad, however, to get within reach of information, and of course asked many questions concerning the ice-mountains and the strange bay, to most of which our inquisitive Hoona friends replied with counterquestions as to our object in coming to such a place, especially so late in the year. They had heard of Mr. Young and his work at Fort Wrangell, but could not understand what a missionary could be doing in such...
Page 5 - The grants provided for in this Act shall be in lieu of the grant of land for purposes of internal improvements made to new States by section 8 of the Act of September 4, 1841 (5 Stat. 455), and sections 2378 and 2379 of the Reivised Statutes (43 USC, sec.
Page 47 - ... but its heavy, meaty smells were not the same to our noses as those we were accustomed to in the sprucy nooks of the evergreen woods. The circle of black eyes peering at us through a fog of reek and smoke made a novel picture. We were glad, however, to get within reach of information, and of course asked many questions concerning the ice-mountains and the strange bay, to most of which our inquisitive Hoona friends replied with counter-questions as to our object in coming to such a place, especially...
Page 47 - wawa" was "delait" (my talk was very good). The old warrior even became a little sentimental, and said that even if the canoe was broken he would not greatly care, because on the way to the other world he would have good companions. Next morning it was still raining and snowing, but the south wind swept us bravely forward and swept the bergs from our course. In about an hour we reached the second of the big glaciers, which I afterwards named for Hugh Miller.
Page 47 - ... to believe the woodless part of Charley's description of the Icy Bay, so heavily and uniformly are all the shores forested wherever we had been. In this view we were joined by John, Kadachan, and Toyatte, none of them on all their lifelong canoe travels having ever seen a woodless country. We held a northwesterly course until long after dark, when we reached a small inlet that sets in near the mouth of Glacier Bay, on the west side. Here we made a cold camp on a desolate, snow-covered beach in...
Page 5 - That in lieu of the grant of land for purposes of internal improvements made to new States by the eighth section of the act of September fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-one, and in lieu of the swamp-land grant made by the act of September...