SEACC successfully creates smarter timber sale with Forest Service - June 2008.

In July of 2008, SEACC and the Sitka Conservation Society (SCS) successfully resolved their appeals of the Iyouktug timber sale with the Forest Service.  The original timber sale proposed by the Hoonah Ranger District of the Tongass National Forest included several controversial "roadless" and high value wildlife corridors and was larger than what the Hoonah-based mill needed to continue operating or could afford to bid on.

“We hope the success from working together on this sale leads to a new, more collaborative and community-based way of managing the Tongass."

SEACC and SCS worked with the mill owner and Forest Service officials to negotiate the sale to better meet the mill's needs while staying out of the more controversial areas in the immediate future.  For the first time, SEACC and the Forest Service issued a joint press release announcing the resolution of an appeal.

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To learn about the Hoonah Community Forest project that inspired this resolution, click here.