Appeals for Alaska Department of Natural Resources’ Division of Forestry decision to sell timber from the Vallenar Bay unit of the Southeast State Forest on Gravina Island are due by May 27.
The Ketchikan Daily News reports that the state decided May 4 that the sale was in the best interest of Alaska. The amount of available timber is approximately 12 million board feet.
The project area is about five miles west of the Ketchikan International Airport.
According to the Division of Forestry the project will establish access to the Vallenar Bay area from the existing road system on Gravina Island by constructing a forest road from the Lewis Reef area to the existing logging road on the southeast side of Vallenar Bay.
