Timber Sale, Nursing Permit Bills Signed into Law
Governor Mike Dunleavy signed legislation addressing healthcare, timber sales, military affairs, and motor vehicles.
Tag: Timber
$1.9M Federal Grant for The Kuskokwim Corporation Sawmill
The Kuskokwim Corporation’s nonprofit affiliate receives $1.9 million in US Commerce Department funds to develop a sawmill to produce local building materials.
Legislative Session Ends with Changes for Energy, Healthcare, and Resource Industries
Lawmakers finished a $6 billion operating budget and enacted new legal frameworks for energy, health insurance, and natural resources industries.
Niche Products Put Alaska Timber to Creative Uses
Today Alaska’s timber industry is focusing on value-added products made in Alaska with locally grown wood.
Op-Ed: Respect Alaska Tribes Rights on the Tongass Question
The following is an opinion piece from Richard Chalyee Éesh Peterson, President of the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (Tlingit and Haida) regarding the topic of the proposed change to the Roadless Rule as it applies to Tongass National Forest.
Harvesting Carbon Credits
There’s money to be made in promising to reduce your company’s environmental footprint by cutting down fewer trees. And Alaska’s largest landowners are getting behind this new type of business in a big way.
US Department of Commerce Invests to Help the Native Village of Napaimute
The US Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration announced that it is investing to help the Native Village of Napaimute, Alaska, acquire vital equipment needed to spur economic growth in the wood products sector.
Second Good Neighbor Authority Timber Sale Finalized in Southeast
The Alaska Department of Natural Resource’s Division of Forestry (DOF) and the US Forest Service have partnered to award a second timber sale in Southeast Alaska under a Good Neighbor Authority (GNA) agreement.
A Portrait of Southeast Alaska’s Sawmills
“You can have a whole pile of logs,” Brent Cole says from his home on Prince of Wales Island, “and then you find that one—so straight and so even—that’s what turns me on about what I get to do every day.”
Alaska Timber Industry Needs Increased Tongass Harvest
Alaska’s timber industry varies greatly by region within the state and there is great potential for growth of the industry.