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Bostwick Road/Gravina Island
By Erin Murphy
March 04, 2007
Sunday PM
Here is an email I sent Mr. Greg V at the Tongass Conservation
Society after reading the fabrications in their articles.
Dear Greg,
My name is Erin. I am a third generation Alaskan. I was one
of the truck drivers that built the Bostwick road from start
to finish. It's funny, your "team" made several trips
onto our job and none of you thought to talk to any of us before
you went and wrote all the scathing articles. I can tell you
that all of us on that job treated the streams, land and animals
with the utmost respect. We don't leave trash; we clean up after
ourselves and our equipment. All of you make it sound as if Gravina
is getting raped. That road will give countless people access
to a place they wouldn't normally go. Travel to Hollis, it was
logged there and today it's absolutely beautiful. The Bostwick
job supported my family for eight months, as a single Mom that
means a lot. Why don't you and your "society" give
a truthful and fair account of what's going on over there? Why
do you make it sound like logging and road building is the evil
of all evils?
Do you wipe your butt with paper? Do you live in a home built
with wood? Where do you think those things come from? Give me
a break here, these days there is so much red tape to do anything,
do you think anyone can just go rape the land?
I'm from here. My children are growing up here and I'm afraid
that people like you and your "society" will make it
so there is nothing for them here but a view. It's really hard
to by groceries without jobs, industry and progress. It is possible
to strike a balance; you don't have to be on one side or the
other. Maybe if you all tried to help bridge that gap we could
all work together to responsibly log, fish and recreate instead
of taking opportunities away from families like mine . . . just
a suggestion.
Sincerely,
Erin Murphy
Lifelong Alaskan
Ketchikan, AK
Received March 02, 2007 - Published March 04, 2006
About: "Third generation
Alaskan. Worked the Bostwick Road project start to finish."
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