1965-05-19 Work SessionPINING AND ZONING COMISSION
DISCUSSION 12ETING - MAY l
The meeting was called to order at : oo p.m. in the courtroom by Chairman Bill
Lamme without a quorum for the purpose of discussion only.
PRESET ABSENT
Walter Kraft Eddie Franklin
Bill Lame Norman Sutliff
Jim Duros Dick Juelson
George Cornelius Phil Anderson
Harry Felton
Also present: Borough Engineer J m. arr .
Vernon Berns, Assistant Refuge Manager and Dick Hensel USMI Refuge Nanager,
Sterling ide, Game Biologist, Alaska Department of Fish. �d Game and several o
the looal ranchers ifere present. A discussion of the merits of opening a mile ode
strip around the shore of the Kodiak Wildlife Refuge as requested by the Kodiak
Cattlemen' Association followed.
Dick Hensel sumaried the history of the Kodiak Wildlife Refuge. It was established
by executive order in 1941 and included most of the Kodiak Island shout the
i huyak_ gak Bay and Uga ik Island except for a mile strip around Kodiak Island,
In 1958 a revision was made to ease some the ranching -homesteading problems by
revoking the on-ginal executive order and revestab isUng as revised refuge which
included the mile strip but excluded the Shear ater and Kupreanof Peninsula and
increased the village sites by a. square mile. over the years various activities felt
to be compatible with the refuge purposes have been permitted including 27 guide
camps, 42 gill net sites, 3 lifetime residential ,leases, 7 cannery sites,
grrzing leases and several recreation sites and the Terror Lake Hydroelectric project
are planned in the future. Mr. Hensel stated that opeiiing of the one mile strip would
not only jeopardize the natural habitat of the Kodiak Bear, Bald Eagle and other
wildlife, but imuld seriously affect our commercial soon fishery, Sterling Eide
gave a summary of the bear cattle problem. Mr o Straton commented that In some areas
a one mile strip would not necessarily be the most desirable but should be either
more or less in some cases. He further brow h out the inability of fishermen to
Obtain title and therefore loans on heir sites under the preset situation. He felt
that since most of Alaska is wilderness and much of it ifill not be developed in the
foreseeable future that those areas suitable and ready for development should be
opened for development. . This is particularly important since so much of the Island
is held by the Federal Government.
After the conclusion of the above discussion at o:oo it was amounced that the
meeting was postponed one week due to lack of a qua .
Respectfully submitted,
James R. Barr
Consulting Borough Engineer
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