...went on a Forest Service-led tour of proposed timber units near Hoonah also took a tour of the town's Icy Straits Lumber sawmill, Fields said. Mill owner Wes Tyler was in the field and unavailable for comment Wednesday. The Sitka Conservation...

...people to work if a plywood plant is eventually added to the operation. The mill also could mean the Pacific Log and Lumber sawmill on Gravina Island would hire more people, he said. The five-year lease comes with two automatic five-year extensions...

...seiner on the fishing boat, Alberta, in Icy Straits Cannery outside Hoonah. He came to Juneau and worked at Columbia Lumber Sawmill alongside Joe Johnson Sr., Peter Johnson Sr. and Ronald James. Then he went back to Hoonah and fished seasonally...

...Science & Technology Foundation, created by the state, announced Tuesday it will fund an in-state inspector to grade lumber. Sawmills will no longer have to pay the steep fees charged by out-of-state graders to regularly inspect their mills...