The Tongass National Forest is seeking comments on a proposed commercial thinning project on Prince of Wales Island. The project, Dargon Point, is a young-growth timber project. According to the Forest Service, it is part of a broader effort to transition from old-growth to young-growth harvest.
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The Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly on Monday will consider a $2.5 million grant to the City of Ketchikan to help fund the long-planned Whitman Lake hydroelectric dam project.
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The U.S. Forest Service is reviewing a complaint filed by a Southeast environmental group that claims the federal agency misrepresented or omitted information when applying for a state log-storage permit.
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Residents in the Denali Avenue area were without water for about five hours Wednesday after a cast-iron water main on that street broke.
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The State Department of Environmental Conservation is investigating allegations by the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council that the U.S. Forest Service misrepresented or left out information from an application to store logs from the Tonka Timber Sale in Alexander Bay, located in Wrangell Narrows.
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