September 5, 1941:
Total salmon pack for the seven canneries in the Wrangell district for 1941 totaled 714,685 cases with the close of the major season last weekend, according to official figures of the Fish and Wildlife Service. A few of the canneries are still handling beach net and gillnet fish but that is expected to add only a few thousand to the total pack figure for the season. To salmon pack for the Ketchikan district for the season up to Saturday night totaled 1,147,047 cases, compared with a total pack of 656,961 for last year.
September 2, 1966:
Five big lumber carriers, three calling in Wrangell,
will be in Southeast Alaska ports this month in the Wrangell Lumber Company trade,
taking more than 17 million board feet of lumber in export to the Japanese market.
The Georgia Maru, arriving late Wednesday is now loading 4,200,000 feet at Wrangell Lumber. Vice President
C.H. Neill reported the Fuzan Maru is scheduled here September 10 to take 2,000,000 feet at Alaska Pacific
Lumber Company and 2,000,000 feet lumber and 600,000 feet of logs at WLC. Following the Fuzan into Southeast ports will be the Iseharu Maru on Sept. 13. She’s coming down from Sitka and berthing at Ketchikan to pick up 3,000,000 feet for Tokyo and Nagoya. “It promises to
be a busy month for us,”
commented Supt. Neill,
whose company handles the entire commitment for the Japanese market.
September 5, 1991:
A revised Tongass
Land Management Plan moved closer to completion last week with the release of a supplement delineating changes
brought about by the Tongass Timber Reform Act of 1990. The supplement is tied in to a draft environmental impact statement released last year by the Forest Service identifying a preferred alternative for
managing the Tongass National Forest. Region Forester Michael A. Barton said the DEIS was part of the lengthy process of revising the
Tongass Plan. “Revisions are required by law every 10
to 15 years,” Barton said when speaking of the 12-year-old Tongass Plan.
“The DEIS outlined several alternatives for a revised Plan including a preferred alternative.” While the draft EIS for the revision was being reviewed by the public, Congress passed the Tongass Timber
Reform Act. That legislation manadated specific changes for the Tongass National
Forest which needed to be addressed as the Plan was revised.
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