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The Tongass Forest Product* Industry 

 Employment and Payroll In 1989 



Forest Service Employment Related to Tongass Timber Harvests 



It Is difficult to say with any certainty exactly how Forest Service employment would 

 be affected by a reduction in the Tongass commercial timber resource base. 

 Reallocation of federal funding to other types of Tongass management activities 

 could mitigate Forest Service employment reductions. But in the present situation 

 a very significant portion of Forest Service employment in Southeast Alaska is the 

 direct result of management of a portion of the Tongass as a commercial timber 

 resource. This employment would decline with a declining resource base. 



The Forest Service allocates about 700 full-time equivalent positions to 

 management of the Tongass National Forest including positions in the Forest and 

 Regional offices. Workers in these positions earn an estimated $22 million in 

 payroll annually (based on 1988 average salaries). Among these 700 workers, it is 

 estimated that about 450 are directly involved in timber sale preparation, 

 implementation and management. If there were no Tongass timber harvest these 

 jobs would not exist. These Forest Service workers earn an estimated $14 million in 

 annual payroll. 



Total Tongass Forest Products Industry 

 Estimated Employment and Payroll in 1989 



* Timber-related Forest Service employment and payroll figure* are McDowell Group 

 estimates which are based on prior Forest Service estimates. 



