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Tlingit pedagogy creates multiple opportunities for local students

...internship through the United States Forest Service to paddle Tracy Arm as a Kayak...bear wilderness rangers of the Forest Service. Eran Hood, a UAS Associate...Belagh, and from the U.S. Forest Service Rachel Myron, Sean Riley, Myra...

http://juneauempire.com/neighbors/2013-06-16/tlingit-pedagogy-creates-multiple-o
Neighbors
Hot dry weather prompts fire warning from USFS

In a release Friday afternoon, officials with the U.S. Forest Service on the Tongass National Forest are urging Southeast residents and visitors to use caution with fire this weekend.The National...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-06-14/hot-dry-weather-prompts-fire-warning-us
State | Local
Fish appear to be unharmed by landslide

...Two people staying at a recreational cabin barely escaped with their lives when the slide came down May 12.U.S. Forest Service officials say the sockeye run probably wasn't affected when the landslide slammed into Redoubt Lake, KCAW reported...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-06-10/fish-appear-be-unharmed-landslide
State
Scientists ask for protections on salmon in Tongass

...administrative actions the U.S. Forest Service could take but those are temporary...in the world. According to the Forest Service, nearly 80 percent of the commercial...watershed for the Alaska region of the Forest Service, said all streams on the Tongass...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-06-11/scientists-ask-protections-salmon-tonga
State
USFS: Slow down near the glacier

JUNEAU - In a release this week, the U.S. Forest service is asking Juneau residents to slow down their vehicles as they approach the end of the Glacier Spur Road, near the Mendenhall...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2013-06-07/usfs-slow-down-near-glacier
Outdoors
Outer Point Trail to become ADA compliant

...provided, if needed.The event is organized with the help of SAGA, ORCA, the City and Borough of Juneau, the U.S. Forest Service and the Division of Alaska State Parks.? Contact Outdoors Editor Abby Lowell at abby.lowell@juneauempire...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2013-05-31/outer-point-trail-become-ada-complia
Outdoors
Family Fishing Day at the Lake

...reels, hooks and bait at no charge. The U.S. Forest Service will provide rowboat trips, life jackets, fish printing...supporting Family Fishing Day at the Lake include: U. S. Forest Service, Douglas Island Pink and Chum Inc., 4-H Outdoor...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2013-06-07/family-fishing-day-lake
Outdoors
Poems by Wall and Hayes to be installed in Totem Bight park

...project launched in 1992 in Washington state has also proved quite popular. That installation was begun by two creative Forest Service rangers, Curtis Edwards and Sheela McLean. Charged with updating interpretive signage along the North Cascades National...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2013-06-06/poems-wall-and-hayes-be-installed-totem-b
Art
Timber communities worried about budget impact

...schools and other projects could be doomed.U.S. Forest Service Chief Thomas Tidwell has asked 41 states to return...the act for things such as conservation projects.Forest Service spokesman Larry Chambers previously told The Associated...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-06-04/timber-communities-worried-about-budget
State
Police & Fire for Friday, May 10, 2013

...traffic indicated that the individual, who was about a mile from the trailhead, had been consuming alcohol. A U.S. Forest Service officer was also involved in the recovery effort, according to scanner traffic.Fire and medical? A fire alarm...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2013-05-10
Local | Police & Fire

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