Pacific Northwest Research Station

Title: Timber harvest in interior Alaska.

Author: Wurtz, Tricia L.; Ott, Robert A.; Maisch, John C.

Date: 2006

Source: In: Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest: 302-308

Description: The most active period of timber harvesting in the history of Alaska's interior occurred nearly a century ago (Roessler 1997). The beginning of this era was the year 1869, when steam-powered, stern-wheeled riverboats first operated on the Yukon River (Robe 1943). Gold was discovered in Alaska in the 40-Mile River area in 1886, a find that was overshadowed 10 years later by the discovery of gold in the Klondike, Yukon Territory. By 1898, Dawson City, Yukon Territory, was reported to have 12 sawmills producing a total of 12 million board feet of lumber annually (Naske and Slotnick 1987).

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Wurtz, Tricia L.; Ott, Robert A.; Maisch, John C.  2006.  Timber harvest in interior Alaska..   In: Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest: 302-308.