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.
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New Sealaska logging sites near earlier cuts
Sealaska says it will begin logging its new lands later this year. The first two parcels to be cut will be on Prince of Wales Island and the Cleveland Peninsula.
Small Southeast Alaska community votes to become municipality
It’s not official yet but it looks like residents in the small Southeast community of Edna Bay this month voted to become Alaska’s newest second class city.
Petition calls for Edna Bay to incorporate as a city
A group hoping to incorporate the community of Edna Bay as a second-class city has filed a petition with the Alaska Local Boundary Commission.