Isn't it better from an environmental perspective and certainly for the critical habitat perspective to allow the proposal that we have before us?
What I'm still struggling with is the reality that under this proposal even if Sealaska were able to harvest the full 80...
I think we all recognize that this must happen.
I want to thank Senator Tester once again for his strong commitment to Montana's communities and natural resources.
It is in everyone's best interest that we finally come to closure on this issue.
It is long past time that Sealaska shareholders get the lands they were promised nearly 40 years ago.
The entire issue stems from legislation that Congress approved four decades ago and the many intervening events in the r...
Unless this bill passes we do have, again, some very dire economic situations within the panhandle region.
It was unfair to Southeast natives who lived in a region the size of the State of Indiana, to have had their lands taken...
This bill is clearly beneficial.
Forty years is a long time to be waiting for these land issues to be resolved.