Summary: Part 1 (AAF-2828) Commissioner Joe Josephson presents an overview of the issues, then introduces fellow commissioners Jim Hurley of Wasilla, Prof. Richard Cooley of the University of California Santa Cruz, Harry Carter, and Joe Fitzgerald of Montana. Alaska state legislators in the audience are acknowledged. Connie Parrish?, California representative of the Friends of the Earth, presents a gift to the commission and then gives testimony. James Griffith, college senior in California and a former Alaska resident, testifies about the Gates of the Arctic National Park. Testimony is also heard from: Mark Wexler of Riverside, California, a summer worker at Mt. McKinley National Park; Rex Sanders, a sophomore at the University of California Riverside; and Jack Edwards of the California Association of Four-Wheel Drive Clubs. Part 2 (AAF-2829) includes continued testimony from ??, George Marshall (brother of Robert Marshall) representing the Wilderness Society, and Dr. Edgar Wayburn representing the Alaska Task Force of the Sierra Club. Part 3 (AAF-2830) Dr. Wayburn of Georgia and California, and a landowner in Alaska, completes his testimony. Testimony is heard from: Charles F. Park Jr., Professor of Geology Emeritus from Stanford University, who worked on the Alaska Railroad in 1931 and spent several months in mineral exploration in Alaska; Amy Massof? of Davis, California, speaking about the need for wilderness areas; Hugh G. Matheson?, vice-president of exploration for Placer Annex? in San Francisco, and a resident of Alaska from 1928 to 1965, speaking about the need to use land to its maximum benefit in order to prevent a shortage of raw materials in the United States; R.C. Cole?, vice-president of Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company and Inspiration Development Company, with interests in Alaska; David Wallace of Oakland, California, a graduate student of English at Mills College, speaking about his visit to the St. Elias Mountain Range; Philip Bradley, a mining engineer who had grown up in Alaska, speaking about the need to "lock up" especially scenic lands while making productive lands available for development to support growing populations; Richard Reed?, a forester representing the Western Timber Association; and Nancy Lithgow? of Alaska, former instructor at Anchorage Community College and South Central Regional Center, in California to teach at Stanford University. Part 4 (AAF-2831) Original tape is audio only, no video. Ms. Lithgow? completes her testimony about wild and scenic rivers. Testimony is then heard from: Virginia Guido of Sacramento, a teacher and a member of the Sierra Club; Irma Harris, a shop owner in Berkeley; R.F. Kern?, a member of the Sierra Club, speaking about his travels in Alaska; and D.G. Athens? of California, a research writer who had been stationed in Greenland during World War II. Part 5 (AAF-2832) Original tape is audio only, no video. Testimony is heard from: Mr Athens?; Rev. Leland? of Oakland; and Raymond J. Sherwin, past president of the Sierra Club, and a superior court judge for the County of Solano in California. Part 6 (AAF-2833) Original tape is audio only, no video. Testimony is heard from: William L. Reabley?, western executive director of the National Wildlife Federation; H.W. Wright?, manager of lands and water for the Western Oil and Gas Association, speaking about the need for a domestic oil supply; James Garretson?, a student in San Francisco; John Tudor, Alaskan backpacker and member of the Board of Supervisors in Napa County, California, about the need to preserve D-2 lands; and Benjamin Shane?, Greg Wheatland? and Barry Hector?, with a presentation about the University of California at Santa Cruz's Wrangell Mountain Study Project. Part 7 (AAF-2834) Original tape is audio only, no video. Continuation of presentation about the University of California at Santa Cruz's Wrangell Mountain Study Project. Benjamin Shane?, Greg Wheatland? and Barry Hector? make theer presentation. Part 8 (AAF-2835) Original tape is audio only, no video. Presentation about the Wrangell Mountain Study Project concludes. After a break, testimony is heard from: Tony Povolitus?; Richard Leonard?, president of the Conservation Law? Society of America; Phillip Farrell?, wildland resource management student at the University of California at Berkeley; Frank Folger?, environmental control coordinator for the North American Production Division of the Sun Oil Company; and Norman Foley?, director of the Sportsmen's Committee on Political Education and member of the Richmond Hunting Club in California. Part 9 (AAF-2836) Original tape is audio only, no video. Mr. Foley? completes his testimony. Testimony is then heard from California Energy Secretary Sterns (or Evans?), speaking for Governor Ronald Reagan about California's energy concerns; Peggy Wayburn, wife of Sierra Club president Edgar Wayburn; and Amy Meyer? of San Francisco, California. Part 10 (AAF-2837) Original tape is audio only, no video. A woman completes her testimony. Testimony is then heard from: Mary Jackson? Augustine, a former 15-year Alaska resident who graduated from high school in Juneau, attended the University of Alaska, and was once employed by Wien Airlines; and Richard Gaymer?, speaking about his concerns that Alaskan lands might unnecessarily be opened to timber and mining interests. Gordon Watson of the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife in Alaska comments on the affect of noise and traffic on caribou herd patterns and wildlife. There is a general discussion about a potential hydroelectric project on Lake Iliamna. Mr. Lundquist?, a San Francisco lawyer residing at Lake Tahoe, formerly an assistant U.S. attorney in Anchorage, speaks about his desire for preservation of wilderness areas in Alaska and about the need to learn from development mistakes in other areas of the country. Dennis Schmidt testifies about his cultural studies, volunteer experience, and mountaineering activities in the Anaktuvuk Pass area in the mid-1960s. Part 11 (AAF-2838) Original tape is audio only, no video. [Note that the original videotape is mislabeled, and that this tape should actually be Tape 12]. Chuck Baumbach? completes his testimony about "The 13th Regional Corporation" and Alaska Natives living outside of Alaska. Roger Scholl of Davis, California, a recently graduated chemistry student, testifies. The hearing in San Francisco is brought to a close. Part 12 (AAF-2839) Original tape is audio only, no video. [Note that the original videotape is mislabeled, and that this tape should actually be Tape 11]. Dennis Schmidt completes his testimony. Ray Spaulding?, a student in mass communications research and broadcasting, a resident of College, Alaska, and formerly stationed with the military at Eielson Air Force Base, testifies about the need for protection of various wilderness areas. Margie MacLucas? or Maglugis?, housewife and former Alaska resident, testifies. Lolita Benzie? Mandipak?, president of the Confederation of Alaska Natives in the San Francisco area, originally of Petersburg, Alaska, testifies about the concerns of non-resident Alaska Natives. Next to testify is Louis or Lewis Gloria?, president of the Southern California Alaska Natives, originally of Juneau and Petersburg, Alaska. James MacDonald or McDonald, of Pacifica, California, originally of Fairbanks, Alaska, testifies about his mining experience in the 40-Mile and Manley Hot Springs areas. Jim Eaton of Davis, California, testifies about his concerns that Alaska not be exploited as California had been. Chuck Baumbach?, an attorney and former Alaska resident, spoke about his adoption of a Native Alaskan boy and about his membership in the Confederation of Alaska Natives.