Again, Admin Opening Tongass National Forest...

I am a retired forester, and worked on a contract on the Tongass for two years. There are no mills left in Alaska. There is not going to be a big timber rush because the area is so remote and hard to get to. There are millions of acres of old growth Sitka spruce and western hemlock forests with some red and yellow cedar. Fires are almost nonexistent because it is so wet. Fuel just keeps building. It is a National Forest subject to the Multiple Use Sustained Yield Act of 1964.

Trust the environmental review process. Not all proposed projects get approved. One of the sensitive issues in SE is the salmon fishery, also plenty of protected wildlife species.

I am with pigman.