The Haines Borough Assembly is scheduling a public meeting to solicit input on how the borough should respond to the University of Alaska’s timber sale notice. The University announced last week it’s entering into a negotiated sale to harvest roughly 100 million board feet of timber over a 10-year period from its 13,426 acres—the bulk of its holdings in the borough.
The announcement comes after a controversial sale the University canceled on the Chilkat Peninsula.…