Most locals, myself included, support small-scale logging that supports local loggers for local supplies of rough-cut lumber, firewood and value-added timber products. Bringing in outsiders to cut massive acreages of healthy, old-growth forest for shipping logs to Asia is a different matter entirely.
The highest and best value of our local forests is to support healthy watersheds and sustainable wild fish stocks. Salmon fishing brings in significant revenue to the Haines Borough and salmon and…