An assembly member once commented that Haines was doing fine with just tourism and fishing, that logging and mining were just “boom and bust” industries. She didn’t know loggers were in their 35th year of a 50-year timber contract before Clinton canceled their contract, or that the two Juneau mines both operated two shifts for over 20 years each, or that Prudhoe Bay has been mining oil for 40 years, for the foreseeable future! All…