Viewpoints - Photo
Opinion Essay
University of Alaska's Legacy
at Slide Ridge - A Sea of Stumps
Ketchikan, Alaska
Photos & Text by Mike Sallee
Published:
January 19, 2003
Sunday
UofA legacy at Slide
Ridge - A sea of stumps.
Peninsula Point visible at far right.
Road erosion - I wonder
why they call it Slide Ridge?
UofA's Slide Ridge
clearcut-Tongass Narrows at right.
Ketchikan airport and
beyond from Slide Ridge.
Steep ground at UofA's
Slide Ridge cut
Some borough timber,
adjacent to the UofA cut, shortly before it was finished being
felled.The forester doing the cruise stated it "...has a
high blowdown potential, due to the clearcuts surrounding it..."
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