The controversial initiative, which was announced in August, is up against a November deadline.
Timber
Southeast Alaska’s forests yellow from insect outbreak
Some parts of the forests in Southeast Alaska are a little off color. Hemlock trees are turning yellow and brown from a sawfly outbreak. But scientists say there’s not much to worry about.
Forest fire burning north of Ketchikan road system
U.S. Forest Service crews are fighting an approximately 2-acre forest fire, burning north of Ketchikan’s road system. The fire started about 4 p.m. Monday on state land in the Moser Bay area, Forest Service spokesman Paul Robbins Jr. said Tuesday morning.
Commercial firewood sales proposed for Mitkof Island forest land
Personal use firewood cutting already is allowed. But commercial sale of that wood is something that local residents have sought on Mitkof.
State’s wildfire season ‘largely uneventful,’ according to officials
The only structures that have burned in Alaska’s wildfire season this summer are a shed and an outhouse.
Spruce beetles take flight in search of new host trees
The past two years, an outbreak concentrated in Southcentral Alaska’s Susitna River drainage and northwest Kenai Peninsula affected more than 500,000 acres of forest. It’s the worst infestation since the 1990s.