Editing Ted Stevens (section)

====Logging====
[[File:Nancy Reagan at Reagan Missile site crop.jpg|thumb|upright|Stevens escorts former first lady [[Nancy Reagan]] at the [[Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site]] dedication ceremony, April 10, 2006]]

Stevens was a long-standing proponent of logging and championed a plan that would allow {{convert|2400000|acre|km2}} of roadless [[old growth forest]] to be [[clear-cut]]. Stevens said this would revive Alaska's timber industry and bring jobs to unemployed loggers; however, the proposal would mean that thousands of miles of roads would be constructed at the expense of the [[United States Forest Service]], judged to cost taxpayers $200,000 per job created.<ref name="jstor1">{{cite journal |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24782122 |author=Daniel G. Drais |title=The Tongass Timber Reform Act: Restoring Rationality and Responsibility to the Management of America's Largest National Forest |journal=Virginia Environmental Law Journal |year=1989 |volume=8 |issue=2 |pages=317–372 |jstor=24782122 |access-date=2022-09-01 |archive-date=August 31, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220831235954/https://www.jstor.org/stable/24782122 |url-status=live }}</ref>