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Article: Forestry and healthy business and community: there is good news and bad in the timber industry.
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- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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Weathering another year of political controversy, biological warfare and economic un certainty, Alaska's timber industry has no time for respite.
In hot spots around the state, there is good news and bad.
In Ketchikan, the Alaska Marine Highway System has taken up residence in a portion of the former Ketchikan Pulp Mill site, delighting local politicians and economy watchers. Though, while beneficial to the local community, the move still does not translate into the forest-related reuse of the pulp mill site that many forestry proponents wanted. Ketchikan has attempted to lure timber-related manufacturers and producers to town in fits and starts, but ...