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Rain Forest Festival schedule 2016

Here’s the schedule for the ninth Rain Forest Festival:

Petersburg assembly sends letter on Mental Health logging

Petersburg’s borough assembly Tuesday agreed to send a letter urging a land exchange rather than logging on Alaska Mental Health Trust lands on the steep hillside above Mitkof Highway south of downtown. Local residents and homeowners are concerned about landslides that have occurred on that hillside and the potential for increased risk if the slopes are logged.

Forage for your food: Rainforest Festival will end with wild foods dinner

The ninth annual Rainforest Festival kicks off on Thursday. After a full four days of events and activities, it will culminate in a wild foods dinner structured around locally foraged ingredients.

Forage, paint and make paper at the 2016 Rainforest Festival

The Rainforest Festival starts on Thursday and there will be several opportunities to learn more about the land around Petersburg through informational talks, activities and field trips out of town.

What do New York, puppet making and the Alaskan wilderness have in common? Leslie Hendrickson.

Each year, artists of all kinds come to Alaska to experience the wilderness and inspire their art. one artist will create a puppet show based on her time in a remote spot in Southeast Alaska.