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The Wrangell Resource Council has received a grant for their “Wrangell Forest Stewardship Contracting and Resource Mapping Project,” which was submitted for funding by the council in June.

The $24,000 grant, which was awarded by the National Forest Foundation, will allow the council to fulfill what they call, “strengthening” the Forest Service’s capacity for collaboration with local stakeholders, including small businesses, the Wrangell Cooperative Association, the borough, conservation groups, and small mills.

The NFF was founded in 1991 by an act of Congress to work with the U.S...