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It was time to pick up the chainsaw and yell “timber” on Sunday night’s episode of “Sarah Palin’s Alaska.”
While last week’s installment had Sarah doing a little of everything, from dog sledding to waitressing —this week, the show focused on the Alaskan timber industry and all the dangerous machinery it takes to keep it going.
Sarah, husband Todd and their 16-year-old daughter Willow headed to the southern coast of Alaska to spend a few nights at the Evergreen Timber logging camp.
“There’s no cell phone service out there? Yeah, I’m super excited,” was Willow’s initial sarcastic reaction to the camp. Too young to wield a chainsaw, she was relegated to kitchen duty while her parents headed into the woods.
“A chainsaw could end your life quicker than Colonel Colt’s 45,” a logger named Pat told the cameras before handing a huge chainsaw to the ex-governor. Undaunted, she finished cutting down a tree and bellowed, “Stressful!” when it hit the ground. Sarah mentioned what good exercise all the chainsawing was, to which Pat replied, “Beats the out of pilates.”
After cutting them down, it was time to help renew the trees of the forest, and the three Palins headed out with an elementary school to plant Sitka spruces, the state tree of Alaska.
“I want Willow to learn what a hard day’s work means to an Alaskan,” said Sarah, as she continually chided her daughter for her typical teenage apathy. Meanwhile, Todd and Sarah tried their hands at shovel-logging (using a loader to move logs from the forest to the road) and then helped maneuver them into the water with boats.
While cutting and replanting the trees, Sarah spoke about the sustainability of the timber industry and its importance to Alaskans.
“Conservationists write me these nasty letters because I support an industry like this,” she told Todd in the car on the way back to the camp. “They write me these nasty letters using their pretty little pencils on their pretty little stationary not realizing. Where do you think your pencil and your piece of paper came from, people? It came from a tree that was harvested.”
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