In Ketchikan, Gravina Island is now seen as an opportunity for affordable housing.
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Southeast Conference pitches wood pellet production in Ketchikan
Borough staff have expressed caution, noting that wood pellet boiler projects have not always performed as well as anticipated.
Rep. Young requests a few earmarks — 15 years after his ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ made earmarking taboo
What’s not on Young’s list? One very large bridge from Ketchikan to Gravina Island, where the city’s airport is.
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.
New road and landowner collaboration key to harvesting young growth Tongass timber
After new federal plans were set in motion last year, old growth logging in Alaska’s national forests is on its way out. Still, the feds have to make some timber sales available in the Tongass.
Petersburg residents ask tough questions on Mental Health land exchange
The Mental Health Trust Authority owns lands in Petersburg it wants to swap for Tongass National Forest acreage elsewhere in the region. Resulting timber sales would raise money for the Trust.