From: Parker Guide Service [mailto:parkerguideservice@gmail.com]

Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 11:26 AM

To: Pendleton, Beth ‐FS <bpendleton@fs.fed.us>

Subject: Shoreline II Objection

Dear Beth:

As the final draft / decision of the new shoreline II EIS has come out, it leaves some concerns for those of us 

who have been in business here as Big Game Guides in our case 28 yrs, nearly 3 decades.

There are acouple big issues, the main one that stands to obliterate the guide industry as a whole in

SE. Alaska. This being the decision to require all hunts and operators to go to a perspectus system by or in 

2023.

While this system works in other areas of Alaska and has some good merits there, the same applied here to SE. 

Alaska will be completely unworkable to those of us here now and who have been here for some time.

SE. Alaska is very unique and different than the rest of the State and requires a different approach and system 

than the ones now being used in other federal area's in the State. For one we did not start out with a perspectus 

system after the oshayceck decision in the 1980's that everyone else did.

So now implementing after all these years you will take business and allocation and just take from some and 

who ever and give to someone else, for no reason other than some one else wants it. We all have our business 

models set and system is working fine, and new people are getting in and having something worth while as a 

business.

The new perspectus would reallocate this for everyone here now, with all hunts going into one pool with likely

of GUA - Guide Area and season Specific . Both which would be unworkable in SE. and a huge detrament to

business already here.It would all mean more guides and less for everyone and we are at max capacity already

with number of guides in SE. AK. NO-one will really have a good chance at providing a good viable first class 

operation as is now possible.

The final draft / decision also has discrepencies in its wording in Chapter one and really makes you think 

one thing and does not really say that. Such as in Chapter 1. where it says no change, is actualy meaning 

only temporary, not final as it would seem. Also where it states or reads we will get renewall on our special 

use permits, but really only if the FS. doesn't deny us, which they can.

There are several more legal discrepencies between the Final / Draft and the FS. Handbook CFR.'s as well.

We have an excellent system that works well now and has had much effort put into it by all involved and in 

business here, and new folks are coming in as has been proved the last several years and there is still that 

opportunity. This system is unique and taylored for SE. Alaska's special unique area and top notch, with little 

need for change in any way.

We understand the Forest Service is always looking for change to things, due to alot of the fact that there is a 

fairly fast and continued cycle of new Forest Service personel that come in and try to deal with the issues and 

system and always look for a new or better way, and simply cannot understand the history and or the current 

sytsems now in place or why it has arrived there or where and how it is, by years and years of superb effort and 

dedication from those of us who understand the historical issues and have developed with much understanding
the system we now have which would be very hard to improve on, or make big changes and have a better 

outcome. That doesn't really exsist at this point.

I sincerely object to the final / drafts decision on these above mentioned issues. The rest of the Draft I believe is 

workable and can be good, but these issues of concern are and will be the undoing of a viable SE. Guide 

industry as they are now written.

Sincerely 

Bruce Parker

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Parker Guide Service 

Bruce & Ann-Marie Parker

P.O. Box 6290 

Sitka, AK. 99835

Home/business (907) 747-6026

Fax: (907)747-8576

Cell: Bruce (907)738-6760 or Ann-Marie (907)738-6766 

alaskaboathunts@gmail.com

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