Sitka is doing fine.  Wrangell is doing well.  Ketchikan is doing well.  They are all facing challenges like every other rural community in the country because the global economy has changed.
In Sitka, the pulp mills cut all the trees that were economic to harvest.  You can't get blood from a stone.  If they cut all the trees, then there aren't any trees left.  If you don't change and adapt, you get left behind.
In a time of complexity, simple solutions are just fantasies.