The U.S. Forest Service awarded grants this summer that could help revitalize the logging industry in the Tongass National Forest.
Two businesses in Southeast Alaska have received hundreds of thousands of dollars to retool their mills, which could help tackle housing shortages in local communities.
This mill is about to be refurbished. It’s one of just two in Alaska, along with JK Forest Products in Thorne Bay, to be awarded Forest Service grants to upgrade its saw. Martin and Duman were given $300,000 for a small log sawmill upgrade. “Old growth is forest that’s never been managed before,” said Spores. “Between the ages of 206 to 600 — it’s old forest. And then young growth forest is forest that has been harvested and is now a new, young forest.”
But Spores said the demand for young growth doesn’t come close to that. Most of the small mills that are still operating in Southeast are all focused on old growth. Dominick DellaSala is chief scientist at the conservation group Wild Heritage. He’s studied the Tongass for four decades. So you might be a little surprised that DellaSala would support any type of logging.
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