• FY2017 forestry, forest practices, and monitoring budgets and options for alternative funding sources for FRPA implementation;

• Status of 2016 state and federal legislative and regulatory proposals related to forest operations in Alaska, including small negotiated sales under 11 AAC 71.045(e) and state fees;

• Coastal forest management issues including reports on national forest planning, Roadless Rule implementation, the Mental Health Trust land exchange, The Working Forest Group, the Conversion to Young Growth project; and the Southeast State Forest Management Plan;

• Status of forest planning on state land, including the Southeast State Forest and Mat-Su forest planning, and timber sale projects and appeals;

• Wood energy projects in Alaska;

• Reforestation standard recommendations for Interior and Southcentral Alaska;

• Forest sustainability verification; and

• Phytosanitary certificates for wood exports.

  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).  Public comment is scheduled for 1 p.m. 

  The Board of Forestry meeting will be in the Division of Forestry training room, 101 Airport Way, Palmer.  The meeting will also be available by teleconference at the following locations:

• Juneau:  Department of Natural Resources 4th floor conference room B, 400 Willoughby Avenue

• Anchorage:  Division of Forestry conference room, 550 W. 7^th Avenue, Suite 1450 

• Fairbanks:  Department of Natural Resources large conference room, 3700 Airport Way

  Anyone outside of Anchorage, Fairbanks, or Juneau who would like to participate in the teleconference should contact Marty Freeman at the Division of Forestry in Anchorage at marty.freeman@alaska.gov or call at 907-269-8467 no later than 4:30 p.m. on Monday, August 8. If no one has contacted Marty and no one is present at a teleconference site by 9 a.m., the teleconference may be terminated at that site.

  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.

Contact:  Marty Freeman, 907-269-8467, marty.freeman@alaska.gov