Tag: Sen. Lisa Murkowski

Murkowski visits Wrangell to see site of deadly landslide and plan town safety

by Colette Czarnecki | Dec 22, 2023 | Featured News, Local News, Syndicated | 0

Senator Lisa Murkowski traveled to Wrangell on Wednesday, Dec. 20 to look at the site of the town’s recent deadly landslide. While in town, she met with the fire department’s search and rescue team to talk about the town’s response to the landslide and how Wrangell can stay safe moving forward.

Wrangell Island timber sale moving forward, at a much smaller scale

by June Leffler | Nov 17, 2017 | Featured News, Local News, Syndicated | 0

After almost a decade of planning, the U.S. Forest Service said it’s going forward with the Wrangell Island timber sale. The original harvest was about 90 million board feet. The Forest Service scaled it back to a fifteenth of that.