The Petersburg Ranger District is gearing up for another season out in the field on the Tongass National Forest. As Angela Denning reports, a local project of priority is reconstructing a fish passage in Mitchell Creek. And there is a plan try and re-sell timber on North Kuiu Island.
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Citizen science volunteers have helped identify bat species near Petersburg and in other Southeast communities. Scientists are trying to get baseline data on local populations before a deadly disease in the Lower 48 reaches Alaska.
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A film crew from Washington, D.C. documents what it’s like to get long term health care in a rural place and how cuts to public broadcasting could affect a small, remote town.
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Larger than expected areas of herring spawn has been observed near Craig but in unusual places. That’s making it tough for fishermen in the spawn-on-kelp fishery.
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Petersburg’s borough assembly last week heard about planned rate increases for some of the local utilities along with infrastructure upgrades planned for the borough’s enterprise funds. It was a chance for the assembly to learn more about projects and challenges for the part of local government supported mostly by customer fees and not local tax revenue.
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