Timber Harvest in Interior Alaska

• Main Authors: Wurtz, Tricia L., Ott, Robert A.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University Press 2006
• Subjects: Dawson City; Fairbanks; Pacific; Yukon; Dawson; Yukon river; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195154313.003.0025

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...