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Urban forestry conference set for Sept. 20-21 in Anchorage

ANCHORAGE - The Alaska Division of Forestry is pleased to announce the conference, "The Urban Forest of Tomorrow: Planning for Clean Air, Water, and Habitat" will be...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2012-08-30/urban-forestry-conference-set-sept-2
Outdoors
Juneau receives Tree City USA award

The Alaska Division of Forestry announced this week in a release that Juneau has been recertified by the National Arbor Day Foundation as Tree City USA.To receive...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2012-05-18/juneau-receives-tree-city-usa-award
Outdoors
Burn permits required starting April 1

...additional specific information regarding the requirements for burning in your local area, please visit the Alaska Division of Forestry website http://forestry.alaska.gov/burn/ or contact your local Forestry Office. Municipality or...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2012-03-30/burn-permits-required-starting-april
Outdoors
Weather aids crews in fighting border fire

...want that fire moving up and down that highway all summer long," said Tom Kurth, fire management officer for Alaska Division of Forestry. "There's a lot of traffic moving up and down there."

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/051705/sta_20050517015.shtml
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State Briefs

...afternoon about 4 miles from a subdivision, and residents were evacuated, according to Pete Buist with the Alaska Division of Forestry. Fast winds fanned the blaze. By Tuesday the winds had subsided, but not before the fire burned about 1...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/052803/sta_briefs.shtml
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Alaska Digest

...were hoping to contained the blaze by Sunday night, said Brett Ricker, a fire information officer for the Alaska Division of Forestry. Fire officials assigned planes, helicopters and smoke jumpers to battle the fire. Two of the planes scooped...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/053005/sta_20050530011.shtml
News
Resort reopens as wildfire subsides

...next few days. Crews have gotten the upper hand on the fire, known as the West Fork Fire, with help from high humidity and scattered showers. The fire gained no acreage over the weekend, according to the Alaska Division of Forestry.

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/060302/sta_chsr.shtml
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Thank you

...businesses and individuals for helping us plant trees and hold other activities during Alaska's Arbor Month: The Alaska Division of Forestry, CBJ, Capital Copy, Jeff Barnard, Rai Behnert, Elizabeth Bochynski, Mayor Bruce Botelho, Ed Buyarski...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/061005/nei_20050610009.shtml
Neighbors
Alaska Digest

...Volunteer Fire Department responded to the fire on Thursday off 7 Mile Chena Hot Springs Road but only to back up Alaska Division of Forestry firefighters on hand to make sure the house fire did not ignite nearby forest lands. The home is in a Fairbanks...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/062605/sta_20050626022.shtml
News
Ester parade shows independent streak

...helmets for the kids on bikes." Some of the children on bikes threw candy and firefighters in a lime-green Alaska Division of Forestry truck threw tiny flying discs and water bottles. One parade entrant threw radishes. "It was hilarious...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/070603/sta_esterparade.shtml
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