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To: Sam who wrote (287927)	1/11/2016 5:56:11 PM
From: Ron	Respond to of 542904

....has received support from Americans for Prosperity, the group backed by the billionaire Koch brothers. I am shocked..simply shocked.. Who knows, maybe there's coal in the Rockies and Sierra Nevada range too. Mountaintop removal mining moves west... You never know. They've already blown the tops off more than 400 mountains in the Appalachians...

To: Sam who wrote (287927)	1/11/2016 6:30:37 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 542904

We still do a lot of land swapping up here. It can get pretty contentious, and a lot of the big deals are sort of not talked about much. Part of the problem, is that a lot of it has to do with natives switching one piece of land for another piece of land, for example land they might want to swap a piece of strategic property , for old-growth forest that can be logged. This puts the liberals in a dilemma. On the one hand they want to support the natives and on the other hand they don't want anybody logging good old-growth forest as it is so important to the animals because it is the only area that is open and they can find shelter during the winter. When forests grow back in the southeast after having been clear-cut they are so thick you can't walk through them. Southeast has the thickest biomass in the world per acre. So the animals have neither feed nor shelter in new growth forests. If you want to understand Alaskan politics, watch the relationships between big oil, and natural resources, and legislators and land and legislators. With big oil it is almost 100% Republican's that they own. Out of 20 legislators that took $10,000 or more 19 of the 20 were the Republicans. And the one dem was some rural guy they were never going own anyway.