text: Tourism is a good thing. We have millions of people spending money in Alaska then leaving with the environment intact. On the other hand we are PAYING the oil industry money to drill oil in Alaska and have suffered enormous environmental damage. And industrial clear cut logging which exports 'round' logs to Asia has been profitable for a few but has damaged salmon streams and is rapidly erasing our old growth forests. 
  We need to diversify our resource extraction dependent economy or pay even more in taxes.