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The state of Alaska this month is taking public comment on a draft plan for managing the newly created 48-thousand acre Southeast state forest. It’s the third state forest in Alaska and much smaller than the other two state forests in the Tanana Valley and near Haines. The Southeast forest lands were set aside by the state legislature in 2010 and acreage was added the following year.

Petersburg’s borough assembly Monday passed an increase in fees for transient and short term moorage in the borough’s three harbors. The harbor master and harbor board recommended the increase, which is meant to offset increasing costs of maintaining Petersburg’s docks and floats.

Petersburg elected officials this month signed off on the Southeast Alaska Power Agency’s proposal to take on more debt to finance a hydro-electric dam project near Ketchikan. SEAPA is planning to sell bonds to raise its dam at Swan Lake, one of two hydro plants the organization owns.

It was a relatively short list of property tax appeals for the Petersburg borough this year. The borough assembly acting as the Board of Equalization Monday ruled on four disputed property assessments. One of the disputes was over an assessment on mining claims in the borough.