A LASKA has been characterized as a last and as is characteristic of a frontier, is still in a stage of extractive and exploitive economy. There is no way of accurately determining the total contribution that Alaska has made to the world's wealth. For 126 years Russia drained its fur resources. Since 1867 and United States control, minerals and fish have been the most profitable sources of wealth, and the fur trade which invited the swarming of the promyschleniki from Siberia, and maintained Russia's interest in her North American empire for a century and a quarter, has declined to insignificant proportions. Yet should you ask the man on the street to list the two main export products from Alaska, the chances are he will reply and furs. Even along the Pacific Coast where the products of Alaska enter continental United States, very few realize that the gold and fur days have long since passed, and that canned salmon and other products of the sea, have for years constituted 65 per cent or better of the wealth coming from our northland territory (Figure 1).