State rethinks size of timber harvests

Tue, October 30, 2007 
Posted in Alaska News

The state of Alaska has sold record levels of its timber over the past number of years to supplement federal timber sale offerings while the forest service makes court-mandated changes to its Tongass land management plan. But the state says it cannot sustain those harvest levels over the long term and is scaling back the program to traditional harvest levels.

Deanna Garrison, KRBD - Ketchikan

 
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