Oh, yeah, before I forget to mention it, I wonder of either Mr. Wohlforth or Ms. Ferry realize that in spite of being extensively mined for  many  years with absolutely no environmental controls, It's still what Ms. Ferry would like to call "rich wildlife habitat". Oddly the entire Juneau Goldbelt area and both sides of Lynn canal  have been extensively mined and logged in an era when there were no environmental controls and no remediation was ever done. Miles of old railroad and miles of old road still exist, tunnels and tailing piles abound. Small towns are abandoned in the brush. All untouched since the day the miners abandoned the mines. 

This is now called "rich wildlife habitat and scenery".