Where: The Pothole of Alexander Bay indents the eastern shore of Woewodski Island, just to the south of Kupreanof Island’s Lindenberg Peninsula, 20 miles south of Petersburg.  The Pothole lies north of the southern entrance of the heavily trafficked Wrangell Narrows, a labyrinth of over 60 channel markers in a shallow ribbon of water over […]

  Since 2007, Alaska’s congressional delegation has been pushing legislation for a special land deal for one Alaska Native corporation, Sealaska.  The 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA)  authorized the corporation to select acreage for timber development from the Tongass National Forest.  Congress and Sealaska resolved the selection areas during the 1970s.  But now, […]

Overview: The Tonka Timber Sale Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) was released to the public in early November 2011 by the US Forest Service (USFS) Petersburg Ranger District.  This document describes the “Purpose and Need” for offering to the highest bidder, between 25 and 53 million board feet of old-growth forest from the Lindenberg Peninsula […]