text: The forests in the Tongass are primarily rotten , low grade Hemlock, that should still be going to pulp mills. Clinton effectively shut down KPC and the Sitka mill thus denying a market for the bulk of the wood on the TNF. Viking is the only mill left on the forest; once the NO crowd denies them raw material it's over. If you think some one will build a small log mill for second growth your drinking the Koolaid; not gonna happen cause they can't compete with the lower 48. 
  
  We need to be exempt from this rule and still produce high grade boards that will support family wage jobs for Alaskans.