The state Division of Forestry office in Haines would close under a proposal being considered by the Alaska Legislature’s House Finance Committee.
The measure would end the Division of Forestry’s resource management program and close all of the division’s offices in Southeast.
The Haines office manages the 286,000 acres of the Haines State Forest. According to northern Southeast area forester Roy Josephson, eliminating the office and its two employees would halt all future timber…
