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           1. (S/Nf /S1-%`.) MIE.3,SION.- To describe the target Site (St. George Island in
           trie Pribilofs-) in Stage I terminology.
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           to the Site in order. (1)
           pierc-eptions, gained in the session were analyzed after the session to use
           W ~"s own work to illustrate and dicCU"S prob".ems and succe~~Ses.
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   Nom,ads ofthe North Paciftc; fur
   se"Lsfollow two migration routes,
   to California andjapan. In the spring
   70percer t ofthe world population of
   1.4 miffic ri fur seals congregates on the
   Pribitoft to breed. The uninhabited
   volcanic;slands were discovered
   in 1786 bv Gerassint PribyLov, who
   brought.Aleutian Island natives
   to harves, seal pelts.
   1.1-& with h-11..k-.
   visit St. Paul each summer. There's alimit to
   how many the island can handle. "
        The " ~ umaniacs, "as some Aleuts call the
   preserved tionists, concede thatseals die most
   quickly and with the least trauma when
   killed b .stunning and sticking. But they
   object t,, the harve,t on grounds of unnec-
   essary billing and the high cost to the
   government of the Pribilof program. The
   federal -overnment spends 5.3 million dol-
   lars a ~ ., ar-75 percent of Pribilof income.
        Waltz - Kirkness. director of the Pribilof
   Islands Program -^,ir the National Marine
   Fishen Service. ffers a rebuttal. "If we
   halt se; rig, it wo .1d lead to abrogation of
   thetre,i Asa rez~, it. we could easilysee the
   return 'ree-for-~~ ' slaughter of seals at sea
   withou any inte: national controls at all.
   That v ild be dc - mutating to the seals."
        Mik- Zacharo: :.ad an even more basic
   object: ': "Instead of%vorn Ing about seals.
   which -e in no danger of extinction, why
   not we -y about an honest-to-goodness en-
   danger; I species-the Aleut people?"
   Since the Russians first gained sway over
   160*
   no-.
   Walms
     IsUnd
   St. I aul Island
   St. Pa if
     Otter Isknd -57.-
   Pribilof
   islands
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   St- Geolg*
   I Island
   Alaska, Aleuts have decreased from an esti-
   mated 20,000 to a mere 3,200. White man's
   diseases wiped out many. So did a Russian
   disregard for native lives.
        Under U. S. administration, a repressive
   bureaucracy brought little progress until, in
   19 7 1, the federal government settled aborig-
   inal claims for land and compensation and
   gave Alaska~s Aleuts, Eskimos, and Indians
   a means to control their lot. The settlement
   established profit-making corporations for
   each native village and region, with every
   villager a shareholder. For St. Paul's Tan-
   adgusix, the chief profit makers are hotels
   and a restaurant.
        Islanders won a reprieve for sealing when
   Congress extended the fur seal treat%
   through 1984. They were helped by the Sier-
   ra Club and National Audubon Societ, ,
   which supported the treaty and looked upon
   it as a hallmark ofivildlife conservation and
   management.
        But a new threat to the islanders' econom-
   ic well-being has suddenly loomed.
   "It's called Reaganomics," said Agafon
   AewDa. for Alaska'sPribilQflslanders
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