I have witnessed first-hand the result of the University of Alaska’s timber removal operations at Icy Bay, north and west of Yakutat: A once pristine coastal rainforest transformed into an industrial wasteland. Logging practices where the “big timber” was exported out in the round and the rest of the forest was laid to waste. Cut and run.
Stewardship which resulted in a twisted wasteland of clear-cut, littered with abandoned trailers and rusted logging machinery. Cut-and-run…