While serving on the Haines Assembly, I pushed hard for economic development and property owners’ rights. The University of Alaska timber sale will be a huge economic gain for Haines and is a ‘use by right’ within General Use zoning.
Timber harvest offers many advantages to nature, not just economics. So much of our local activities happen within previous clear-cut areas; hunting, fishing, skiing, hiking…people don’t realize the extent that the valley has ‘renewed’ itself.…