Alaska’s wildland firefighters have been completing their annual training and, with help from a state grant, strategically cutting and removing trees, many of them killed by spruce beetles.
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Alaska’s largest April wildfire in 25 years could be done burning
The fire began burning on April 16 near the communities of Kwethluk, Bethel and Napakiak.
The largest April wildfire in Alaska in a quarter century is burning near Kwethluk
The fire still is not threatening the community of Kwethluk or any Native allotments.
Alaska’s first large wildfire of the season is burning near Kwethluk
Officials said on Monday that the fire was not threatening villages, but it was threatening the Kwethluk fish weir and two Native allotments.
Worsening wildfires spark changes to state forestry division
More people than ever before are living in parts of Alaska that are at risk from wildland fires.
Wrong fuel caused Alaska Forestry plane to crash in Aniak in May
The NTSB report says that a vendor tasked with filling up the plane was unclear which kind of fuel to use for the type of airplane and filled it up with the wrong kind.
Forestry plane with four aboard crashes at takeoff in Aniak
The injuries were “serious but not life-threatening.” Individuals were transported to hospitals in Anchorage.
Why was fire prevention funding used on the Roadless Rule process in Alaska? Congress members want to know.
Two Congress members want to know why a grant, typically used to prevent wildfires, was given to the state of Alaska to work on this.
Four Alaska firefighters dispatched to battle California blazes
Four Alaska wild fire professionals are working on blazes in southern California. Alaska Division of Forestry spokesman Tim Mowry said the Alaskans deployed south have special skills.
State-federal agreement awards Ketchikan company second-growth timber sale
A Ketchikan company has been awarded a $2.6-million sale of second-growth timber on an island in Southeast Alaska. The state of Alaska prepared and awarded the contract for logging on federal land on Kosciusko Island under an agreement with the federal government.