Don Young: “this committee has stood with Indian Country, stood with us when we looked at the quiet crisis and the broken promises”

With all due respects, in Alaska, the Park Service does not have a good reputation with Alaska Native tribes.

On the other hand, we will hear that Mr. Huffman's reauthorization bill goes in the opposite direction.

More broadly, this sequence of events starkly illustrates why we believe fishery management plans should be developed in-region through a transparent and robust review process rather than through an outside, centralized body.

When the tribe asked Congressman Don Young to cosponsor the bill years ago, he looked me in the eye and said, so the landowners get resolved, the tribe still has to prove its case, are you sure that is what you want? I said, yes, sir, it…