Alaska’s top Division of Forestry officials are coming to town next week to discuss with residents and Haines Borough officials the future of the local forestry office. It’s bleaker than it was a year ago.
The Alaska Legislature last year decimated funding for the two-person Haines office, laying off 30-year veteran Roy Josephson. The division scraped together some money from a separate pot of statewide fire suppression funds to keep forester Greg Palmieri on, but…