I don't know if the rest of you have ever seen the Tongass, or even a map of it, but I have spent quite a bit of time in it, and on private land inholdings there....

I guess it is called multi-use when parts of a large parcel are managed for different purposes...there are tree farms in the Tongass, as well as Wilderness Areas. The areas set aside as Wilderness are not under any threat that I know of, and the resource areas are largely quiet with all the Environmental Extremist legal stunts....

Most of the money being made in the region is on private land held by Native corporations, even if they occasionally trade in some of their clear-cut land for virgin timber stands.....

That's right, you heard me, Liberals like to give the Natives great deals on their "traditional lands", it makes them feel better about the bad white guys conquering the nice red guys back in the day............and it keeps the bad loggers from cutting down the trees, er...oops, no it doesn't, all the Natives do is clear-cut every tree they can get to, far worse at forest management than the USFS ever was !