The state has proposed a timber sale on 1,000 acres of Haines State Forest land in the upper valley, responding to an apparent improvement in the market from a demand for rough sawlogs in China.
“There’s a market developing and there’s interest,” said forester Roy Josephson.
For Lynn Canal Conservation, the scope of the sale has raised concerns about potential impacts to fisheries habitat along the Klehini River and its tributaries. The visual impacts of…

