Ketchikan: The Timber Years from logging Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 16 min 68 sec ✓ Published: 30-Sep-2013
Description: Ketchikan, Alaska, is surrounded by the Tongass National Forest, arguably one of the most beautiful jewels in the U.S. Forest Service’s crown. With 17M acres spanning the entire Alaskan panhandle, the Tongass is full of wildlife, waterfalls, salmon streams, and timber. Lots and lots of timber. nnThe timber industry in Ketchikan started out small, with handloggers and gyppos (i.e., independent small-scale logging operations) cutting trees for houses, early mining operations, fish boxes, boardwa
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