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Article: Pursuing the profits of value-added timber products. (Alaskan Wood Products)
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- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- July 1, 1990
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Pursuing The Profits Of Value-Added Timber Products
BEFORE NORTH SLOPE crude, before coal or zinc mining or gold fields, even before furs, Alaska was recognized for its timber. A continuation of the great Pacific Northwest rainforests, these woodlands stretched from the shore to the 2,500-foot level of the mountain ranges. Today they look much the same as they did in 1741, when the first Russians stepped ashore on Alaska.
From the Kenai Peninsula alone, the Russians harvested nearly 3,000 board feet of lumber annually in the late 1700s. After the United States purchased Alaska, a single sawmill in Southeast cut 1.2 million board feet of logs in 1900.
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