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Blooms, beasts affected as Alaska records hottest month
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska has been America’s canary in the coal mine for climate warming, and the yellow bird is swooning. July was Ala...
Head of US Forest Service visits Alaska's Tongass Forest
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) —The head of the U.S. Forest Service visited Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to investigate timber sales and related issues, a re...
Australia company seeks exploratory drilling OK in Alaska
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Australia mining company is seeking permission to start exploratory drilling for the rare element vanadium in southeast A...
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Fireworks show unaffected by state ban
The fireworks display tonight at 11P.M. at the ball field is moving forward as planned, said...
Availability of Anan Wildlife Observatory permits
Visitors will soon be able to request the last of the daily permits for the Anan Wildlife...
To the Editor:
Borough unfairness To the Editor: I moved here 30 years ago and fell in love with this community....
Letters to the Editor
Senator is wrong To the Editor: Last fall the USFS held public meetings on the repeal of the Roadless Rule. The consensus was overwhelming public...
Borough receives response from USFS
The Petersburg Borough Assembly received a response from Forest Service Chief Vicki Christiansen...
Congressman works to save cabins in Tongass National Forest
In a trip through Southeast Alaska, Congressman Don Young (R) stopped in Petersburg on Tuesday to me...
Roadless Rule, Galore Creek Mine hot topics during SEACC visit
WRANGELL - The Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, SEACC, was founded in 1970 to protect the land...
State signs $2M timber sale contract for southeast Alaska
KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — The state has signed a $2.1 million contract with ALCAN Timber Inc. for a timber sale on state and federal forest land in s...
Joni Johnson recipient of 2018 Hakala Award
The Tongass National Forest recently announced that Joni Johnson of the Petersburg Ranger District...
Governor's Christmas tree coming from Wrangell
WRANGELL - Students at Evergreen Elementary School have spent the past few days making Christmas...
Local veteran remembers time in Vietnam War
It was clear to Sam Bunge that he was going to Vietnam after he graduated from Johns Hopkins...
Guest Commentary: Why the Tongass National Forest should be totally exempt from the Roadless Rule
The 2001 Roadless Rule, covering 58 million acres of National Forest Land, including the Tongass and Chugach National Forests, was pushed through the...
Forest service informs public about changes to Roadless Rule
On Sept. 25, a meeting was held by officials from the United States Forest Service to inform the public about the state’s plan to alter the Roadless R...
Forest service holds meeting on Roadless Rule
WRANGELL — In 2001, the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a nationwide regulation on the management of roadless areas in national forests a...
Forest Service holds meeting on Central Tongass Project
The Nolan Center was littered with maps of the Tongass National Forest Sept. 5. Members of the Wrangell and Petersburg Ranger districts came by to hol...
To the Editor
Clarification To the Editor: Thank you to the Petersburg Pilot for the coverage of the 1st annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Walk/Run. I...
US officials seek public comment on AK roadless rule
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Trees soon may be cut down in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, and federal officials want the public’s input on the matte...
Like father, like son: Two sons help rebuild the same fish pass their fathers built
In the summer of 1992, the Student Conservation Association sent six interns to Kupreanof Island to...
Anan Wildlife Observatory: a special place
WRANGELL - Early on Thursday morning, several members of the U.S. Forest Service left Wrangell with...
Public input wanted on cabin management strategy
WRANGELL — The Wrangell Ranger District is hosting a public meeting at the James & Elsie Nolan Center in Wrangell on May 31 from 7-8 pm in order to...
21st annual Wrangell Birding Festival set for next week
WRANGELL — Wrangell’s annual birding festival is gearing up for a week of activities late next week. This year’s Stikine River Birding Festival will...
Sullivan urges USCG to retain Petersburg assets
WRANGELL — Sen. Dan Sullivan stopped into Wrangell for a lightning tour Friday, arriving on the morning jet and taking off that afternoon for Ket...
