Boy, is Eric Holle out of touch with reality. The picture in Lynn Canal Conservation’s March 16 ad of a log ship loaded with unprocessed logs for export is actually a Canadian power barge about to unload pulp logs to be processed into rayon and paper at the Ketchikan pulp mill.
The two pulp mills in Southeast used to employ over 1,000 people and their sawmills, over 700 people. Our timber industry used to employ…