...to lose by becoming anything else other than wild. Of the million-plus acres altered by the hand of man here, may the centuries pass swiftly before such primal bounty may then return as fruit for a wiser hand to pick. David Beebe Petersburg

...statements from the U.S. Forest Service inferring that there is forest covering all 17 million acres on the Tongass. Please refrain from stenographic impulses that become a conduit for agency-speak that is clearly skewed. David Beebe Petersburg