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1. Groups run ad urging stop to timber sales in Tongass

   Oct 25, 2009 | Juneau Empire

   ... review proposals to log in roadless areas. The conservation groups are objecting to a timber sale planned for Kupreanof Island. The Central Kupreanof timber harvest would require 15 miles of new roads at a $6 million cost to taxpayers. The other ...

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2. Kake intertie planners consider concerns over road

   Oct 15, 2009 | KRBD-FM Ketchikan

   ... proposed road that's prompted concerns from Petersburg and opposition from the neighboring, roadless community of Kupreanof. Recently, the Alaska Energy Authority and the mayors of all three towns met in Petersburg to discuss the project. Matt ...

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   Related Topix: Kake, AK, Petersburg, AK

3. Earthjustice Responds to Timber Project in Roadless Tongass NF

   Oct 12, 2009 | Media Newswire

   The Alaska Region of the U.S. Forest Service today released a final environmental impact statement for the Central Kupreanof timber sale project, which would require 15 miles of new roads to log 1,339 acres of old growth forest in a roadless area of the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska.

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   Related Topix: Juneau, AK