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State seeks to expand logging in Haines State Forest, some question economics

Proposed changes to Haines State Forest management could roll back restrictions on logging across wide swaths of the Chilkat Valley. But some say economics — not just government regulation — is preventing large-scale logging returning to the area.  It’s been a half-century since the Chilkat Valley’s timber boom, which spiked in the early 1960s before […]