Trust land sale manager counters complaints

 

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This map shows the areas where Alcan Forest Products will cut down a swath of forest in a timber sale on Alaska Mental Health Trust property.

A tersely worded letter from the Alaska Mental Health Trust Land Office to Mayor David Jack is spelling out the Trust’s views on issues surrounding a timber sale near the former Wrangell Institute property.

In the letter, Paul Slenkamp, who is a senior resource manager for the TLO, said that while his office and Alcan, the winner of the bid to log the area, will work to ensure viewsheds and water/wind quality, there are other issues which his office takes issue with related to recent public concern over the project.

“Recently, we have become aware that during the March 26, 2013 assembly...



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