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"Alaska's Forests"
Summer, 1996

At 80 pages, this is the largest issue of Evergreen ever published. Fact-filled, meticulously researched, and written by Jim Petersen with the able assistance of three of Alaska's best known citizens, including veteran newspaperman Lew Williams, Jr., who takes the Clinton Administration to task in a behind-the-scenes report titled "Political Science On The Tongass National Forest." 

"A Logger's Wife" is Helen Finney's gift to Evergreen readers: a remarkable and touching story of one woman's courage. Helen was the first woman to live in Hollis, an abandoned mining town that became the first large-scale logging camp in Alaska. Today she lectures aboard Alaska-bound cruise ships, where she reports tourists who've heard all the rhetoric about "destroyed ecosystems" are time and again amazed to discover that the state still has vast forests.

In "Tongass Timber: the Mother Lode in Southeast Alaska," editor Petersen traces the rich history of resource development in Alaska, culminating in the Clinton Administration's betrayal of the region's timber industry. 

U.S. Senator Ted Stevens, Alaska, and Ketchikan resident, Ernesta Ballard, a former EPA official, add their own intensely personal perspectives. "Other than a grass roots fight to the finish, I know of no way southeast Alaskans can preserve for themselves the right to control their own destiny," Ms Ballard told editor Petersen.