Board of Forestry Meeting, Tuesday, December 9, 2014 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The Board of Forestry will meet 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, December 9 to discuss statewide forestry issues. The meeting will be hosted by webinar and audio teleconference, and the public and board members may join the meeting at the webinar/teleconference sites available in Fairbanks, Delta Junction, Anchorage, Juneau, and Ketchikan.
The agenda includes reports on the following topics:
- Proposed Fiscal Year 2016 forestry, forest practices, and monitoring budgets,
- Proposed 2015 legislation related to forestry,
- Reforestation standards review process for Interior and Southcentral Alaska,
- State consideration of assumption of authority for Section 404 wetlands program,
- Forest practices effectiveness monitoring,
- Wood energy in Alaska and state timber sales for wood energy projects,
- Southeast State Forest Management Plan,
- Federal forest management in Alaska including national forest planning, Roadless Rule implementation, Southeast land ownership initiatives, Alexander Archipelago wolf status, and old growth availability, and Southeast Alaska Fish Habitat Partnership,
- Alaska Timber Jobs Task Force recommendations and implementation, and
- Division of Forestry program updates.
Other forestry matters may be included on the agenda. The meeting is intended to comply with the requirements of AS 41.17.047(b) and (d).
The meeting will be held by webinar at the following sites:
Anchorage: Dept. of Natural Resources, Div. of Forestry conference room, 550 W. 7th Ave., Suite 1450
Fairbanks: Dept. of Natural Resources, Medium conference room, 3700 Airport Way
Delta Jct.: Division of Forestry Office, Mile 267.5 Richardson Hwy.
Juneau: Dept. of Natural Resources, 4th floor conference room, 400 Willoughby Ave.
Ketchikan: Legislative Information Office, 1900 First Ave, Suite 310
If you are outside of Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, or Ketchikan and would like to participate in the teleconference, please contact Marty Freeman at the Division of Forestry in Anchorage at marty.freeman@alaska.gov or call her at 269-8467 prior to noon on December 8. If no member of the public has contacted Marty and no one is present at a teleconference site by 9:00 a.m., the teleconference may be terminated at that site.
The meeting agenda is attached below. For additional information about the meeting, or for special accommodations due to audio or visual impairment, contact Marty using the contact information above. Any individuals wishing to receive announcements of future Board of Forestry meetings by e-mail or in hard copy should contact Marty to be added to the mailing list.