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House posts adorn new U.S. Forest Service lab

...built lab is located on a seven-acre parcel of federal land that was reserved in the 1960s for the purpose of U.S. Forest Service research and administration, according to Robert Mangold, the acting director of the USDA Forest Service, Pacific...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2013-05-19/house-posts-pay-homage-ancestral-land-n
Local
Scientist takes closer look at Sunday landslide in Sitka

...of Sitka, according to a federal scientist who is taking a close look at Sunday's slide in southeast Alaska.U.S. Forest Service soil scientist Jacquie Foss told the Daily Sitka Sentinel that the landslide that destroyed the Redoubt Lake cabin...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-16/scientist-takes-closer-look-sunday-land
State
Neary named new director of the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center

...also brings 30 years of experience working for the U.S. Forest Service as a wilderness manager who oversaw the development...from a nationwide group of applicants by a team of U.S. Forest Service leaders. His selection was based not only on his...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2013-05-16/neary-named-new-director-mendenhall-
Outdoors
Photo: Grass fire

U.S. Forest Service employees mop up a small grass fire along Glacier Highway in Auke Nu Cove on Friday. The fire was sparked by hot metal parts, apparently from a large truck's breaking system. Metal parts were scattered along the highway and had melted into the pavement.

http://juneauempire.com/local/2013-05-13/photo-grass-fire
Local
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
A cabin on the lake

...deeps of the freshwater lake.It was fall, and around the group of five - one journalist, one pilot, and three U.S. Forest Service trail crew members - rose numerous 4,000-foot peaks straight up into a sharp blue sky. Their caps were topped...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2013-05-10/cabin-lake
Outdoors
USFS hosts International Migratory Bird Day celebration Saturday

...beautiful travelers up close and learn how scientists study them. Gwen Baluss, a wildlife technician with the U.S. Forest Service, said "most of the birds that (will be) captured at the garden are long distance migrants." For instance...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2013-05-10/usfs-hosts-international-migratory-b
Outdoors
Alaska governor refuses federal repayment demand

...to repay or return more than $800,000 to the U.S. Forest Service due to automatic federal budget cuts.Gov. Sean...them," Parnell said.A message left with the U.S. Forest Service seeking comment wasn't immediately returned...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-03/alaska-governor-refuses-federal-repayme
State
Alaska ferries lose nature experts to budget cuts

...expenses down by eliminating items that do not affect core functions.Naturalists, who are hired and paid by the U.S. Forest Service or the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, make about $22,000 a season. The state provides them free room and...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-04-29/alaska-ferries-lose-nature-experts-budg
State
UAS Sitka offers Natural History Seminar Series talk on April 28

...open to the community.This seminar's guest speaker is Dave D'Amore, a research soils scientist with the U.S. Forest Service's Forestry Sciences Laboratory in Juneau. D'Amore is working on a variety of soils research, including carbon...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2013-04-26/uas-sitka-offers-natural-history-sem
Outdoors

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