I have been away hunting for a few days and I just saw where its being considered to harvest timber in the Tongass. Living in Maine I see many benefits for hunters and trappers from timber harvest. It allowed our moose populations to explode to much higher numbers then without due to all of the new vegetation growing. It does require management as far as the sizes of clear cuts. I believe here we are not allowed to have a clear cut over 40 acres. The best benefit is the road system the loggers leave behind. For many of us that are beyond walking miles per day hunting/trapping these roads allow us to continue our passion when we get up there in age.
So how do some here feel about harvesting timber from this area?

The areas that were previously logged intensively now generally have more restrictive regulations. Mostly due to the increased access. Forestry policy regarding harvest clearly impacts wildlife, both positively, and negatively. Both are on display, here.
Certain areas of P.O.W. are benefiting from well thought-out logging, with deer and black bear plentiful. Of course, the wolves thrive in such conditions.
Other areas, not so much. No doubt that short-term benefits, thanks to new growth that follows a clear-cut. And of course access benefits the hunters and trappers. All that said, the picture is big. As scalloper mentioned, smaller, checkerboard cuts are beneficial, but are not economically viable, here. Vast clear cuts, say 1500 acres or more, are needed to garner any interest. And we are talking Sitka spruce and hemlock. Not high-end material.

Personally, I see the increases in access as a negative. But it's tough to get logs out in a costly manner without roads. Maybe if they destroyed the roads after logging it might be better .

No t on target with your post all the way but ,here goes,their policy here is let it burn .I see it as good for game if they log some and gate the roads .Miles of beetle kill lodgepole and bud worm killed spruce and fir . Now they waste your money to "decommission " roads that are gated and kelly humped for years with trees growing up in them .Oh yes that is real smart and they (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) about weeds ,I wonder how much they will spend to weed control after this .They are smart and very educated so they have to be right huh .

I logged my entire working career in WA and AK. I never saw a 1500 acre clearcut. Block logging was the rule and pretty much never a clearcut over 200 acres with most no more than 80. I only worked FS ground in AK so cannot speak to Native Corporation land. That may be different. Now in WA on FS land it is all selective logging. Bad thing IMO as it results in a lot blowdown. Last years that I worked we did nothing but selective cuts and 100% they all blew down. It is the way it is along the coast especially in hemlock. In AK you get either blowdown or ghost snags on every cutting line, sometimes both.
Pretty much on FS land all the roads get decommissioned with the exception being main roads. Total waste of money IMO as a road near the coast becomes undrivable pretty fast if not used. You will invent new cuss words if you have to walk a decommissioned road.
Clearcuts will improve the habitat for about everything except marten for a while. Then when it gets to be about 20 years old it just becomes a dead zone in this spruce/hemlock coastal forest. Takes maybe another 20 years to grow out of the dead phase.

What he said,yep