Alaska’s Division of Forestry released its plan for selling timber in Southeast Alaska for 2024-2029. The plan seeks to turn some old-growth stands into areas that can be harvested repeatedly in the decades to come. The State will seek public input. But an environmental group in the region is frustrated with the public process.
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The village corporation in Yakutat has been ordered by the State of Alaska to change the way it runs shareholder elections. This comes after two years of conflict over logging in the Southeast Alaska community–with the corporation on one side and many shareholders on the other.
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The U.S. Forest Service is proposing a young growth timber sale near Thomas Bay in Southeast Alaska that’s seeing opposition from environmental groups. It’s one of the first sales to focus on second growth logging, following a federal plan to stop cutting down old growth trees.
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