Borough of Wrangell wants timber and transparency from Forest Service plan
The plan would reshape land uses in the Petersburg and Wrangell ranger districts of the national forest for a 15-year stretch.
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Wrangell Island timber sale moving forward, at a much smaller scale
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.
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USFS open house looks at Tongass transition to young-growth logging
The U.S. Forest Service held an open house in Wrangell Wednesday about its plan to transition the Tongass National Forest from old-growth to young-growth logging in about 15 years.
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Assembly votes down intervention in timber sale appeal
The Wrangell Borough Assembly voted Tuesday against further intervention in a lawsuit to support the Big Thorne Timber Sale on Prince of Wales Island. The assembly chose to not pay an extra $3,000 to intervene in the appeal process.
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Borough Assembly debates timber sale lawsuit intervention
The Wrangell Borough Assembly held a special meeting Friday to discuss possible intervention in a lawsuit to support the Big Thorne timber sale on Prince of Wales Island. The borough would have to pay $5,000 to intervene in the lawsuit.
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