Editing Ketchikan, Alaska (section)

===Lumber===
Ketchikan Pulp Company (KPC), a subsidiary of [[Louisiana-Pacific Corp.]], was headquartered just outside Ketchikan's city limits on the shores of Ward Cove.  The company's [[pulp mill]] opened in the cove in 1954.  A 1995 joint EPA and FBI investigation of the company revealed it had dumped contaminated wastewater and sludge in the waters around Ward Cove, leaving them classified as "impaired" by the EPA. KPC plead guilty to the charges and agreed to pay a $3 million fine.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/Pre_96/March95/123.txt.html |title=#123 Ketchikan Pulp Co. Pleads Guilty to Environmental Crimes |publisher=Justice.gov |date=February 6, 1995 |access-date=December 10, 2011}}</ref>

In 1996, following the Clinton Administration's refusal to reinstate the original terms of KPC's timber contract, Louisiana-Pacific Corp. announced it would be shutting down the pulp mill, and did so in March 1997. A total of 514 direct year-round jobs and more than 500 indirect jobs were lost as a result.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sitnews.us/Kiffer/KetchikanPulpMill/032217_ketchikan_pulp_mill.html|title=SitNews: Ketchikan Pulp Mill Closed 20 Years Ago |author=Dave Kiffer |website=www.sitnews.us}}</ref>