text: The Tongass is a rain forest, for now.  Global warming can quickly turn it into a dry tinder-box.  The no-roads rule will mean that fire crews won't be able to get in close enough to stop the fires.  With local labor and overhead, "Cants" are about the only cost-effective way to sell the timber.  And I fished out of Ketchikan.  The Seattle-based seiners hired their crews out of Seattle.  On the Carl R. I was the only Alaskan, in a crew of Yugoslavians.  Just like Bristol Bay, the lion's share of S.E.Alaska fishing money goes South.  Ship-building shows some promise, but that is very iffy.  Electrical power generation is perhaps Ketchikan's greatest weakness.  Without an abundance of power, you can't attract clean industry.