Industry
Major industries in Southeast Alaska include commercial fishing and tourism (primarily the cruise ship industry). Logging has been an important industry in the past, but has been steadily declining with competition from other areas and the closure of the region's major pulp mills.
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Much boisterous courage, before loneliness
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For meditations upon unknown thought
Make human intercourse grow less and less....”
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