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Article: Timber industry awaits new deal. (bills pending in Congress will affect logging in Tongass National Forest) (company profile)
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- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- October 1, 1990
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Timber Industry Awaits New Deal
For Keaton Gildersleeve, the past several years have wrought an odd form of torture. President of Gildersleeve Logging of Ketchikan, he is a contract logger who used to log mostly in the Tongass National Forest. Lately, though, he sand his 70- to 80-member crew have been logging increasingly for private land owners, notably the Sealaska Timber Corp.
One reason for the pain, even though timber markets have been at or near historir highs, has been the uncertainty that has plagued the Southeast timber industry for the past four years as Congress has debated changes in management of the nation's largest national forest.