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Former Tongass Ranger boat has Ketchikan roots

...47-foot vessel was launched as the Ranger 9 and served in the Forest Service fleet that operated in the Tongass and Chugach national forests.It eventually was sold into private ownership and changed hands over time until the early 2000s, when it was...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-09-03/former-tongass-ranger-boat-has-ketchika
State
Kenai youth nonprofit completes playground

...give them a meaningful summer job," said Elvira Wolf. Since its beginnings, the Corps have partnered with Chugach National Forest, offering trail maintenance jobs to youth members.The Corps have invested a total of 67,000 hours and involved...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-10-07/kenai-youth-nonprofit-completes-playgro
State
Timber task force seeks 2M U.S. acres

...Exemption to the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule.Alaska is home to the Tongass National Forest and the Chugach National Forest.Management of Southeast forests affects many parties - from the Viking mill of Klawock to smaller "mom and...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-10-22/timber-task-force-seeks-2m-us-acres
State
Attorney general says action needed against roadless rule

...saying this will make 9.3 million acres of the Tongass off limits and also eliminates 98.9 percent of the Chugach National Forest from any type of development.He said this effectively makes 92 percent of the Tongass "de facto wilderness...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2011-06-16/attorney-general-says-action-needed-aga
Local
State files two motions against roadless ruling

...combined with other portions set aside, makes 92 percent of the forest off limits, as well as 98.9 percent of the Chugach National Forest.Assistant Attorney General Tom Lenhart, who is leading the litigation, said the state is acting because the...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2011-06-20/state-files-two-motions-against-roadles
Local
Alaska Delegation seeks Roadless Rule repeal in Tongass,Chugach

...percent of the Tongass and 99 percent of the Chugach (national forests) are already protected by ANILCA and forest...covers an area the size of West Virginia. The Chugach National Forest, stretching from the eastern Kenai Peninsula to...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2011-07-13/alaska-delegation-seeks-roadless-rule-r
State
2 major Alaska highways reopen after avalanche

...through miles of mountains in Chugach State Park and Chugach National Forest."If you don't have to travel through the...several school bus routes closed in Girdwood.The Chugach National Forest Avalanche Information Center said the increased...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-02-03/2-major-alaska-highways-reopen-after-av
State
Alaska on the page

...waged by the federal government to save Alaska's wild places -- including Mount McKinley, the Tongass and Chugach National Forests, Gates of the Arctic, Glacier Bay, Lake Clark, and the Coastal Plain of the Beaufort Sea -- from extraction...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2011-12-15/alaska-page
Art
Voices of the Wilderness program expands to include 7 areas

When Rhode Island painter Kathy Hodge headed up to the Chugach National Forest to participate in the Voices of the Wilderness artist residency program last summer, she expected that she might be artistically...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2012-04-05/voices-wilderness-program-expands-include
Art
Good memories keep solo hiker going strong

...Colorado, Boulder, has completed several solo trips in Alaska, including an 18-day hike around Cordova in the Chugach National Forest, a walk from Yakutat to Hubbard Glacer, and a float down the Situk River. Last year, he hiked the northern...

http://juneauempire.com/neighbors/2011-08-13/good-memories-keep-solo-hiker-going
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