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Navy apologizes more than a century after shelling and burning of Alaskan Tlingit village
Angoon remains a quaint village of about 420 people, with colorful old homes and totem poles clustered on the west side of ...
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Woven Peoples and Place: U.S. Forest Service’s Tongass collaboration a ‘promise to the future’
and building those communities into the way that the Tongass is managed is the future here.” “Working with tribes, supporting local voices and decisions” The Organized Village of Kake (OVK ...
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U.S. Forest Service Restores Critical Protections to Tongass National Forest
“The Tongass Roadless Rule is important to everyone,” said Organized Village of Kake President Joel Jackson. “The old-growth timber is a carbon sink, one of the best in the world. It’s important to ...
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Alaska Native Tribes, Businesses, Forest Advocates Intervene to Protect Tongass National Forest’s Roadless Rule
The following statements were issued in response to today’s filing. Joel Jackson, president, Organized Village of Kake “The Roadless Rule has helped protect the Tongass National Forest from harmful ...
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Letter: Jimmy Carter’s Tongass legacy
Part of Jimmy Carter’s legacy is the change he brought to the Tongass National Forest. Before President Carter took office, the U.S. Forest Service’s goal was to clear-cut 95% of the operable ...
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How 3 Native American tribes are fighting to protect sacred land from logging, oil pipelines, and a billion-dollar telescope
At 16 million acres, the Tongass is the country's largest national ... "We don't need more access, we're a small village of just over 700 people," Culp said, in a Skype interview with Business ...
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New Alaska Rep’s First Move: 3 Bills Supporting Native Communities
These historically excluded Native communities will be restored land entitlements and will be able to select 23,040 acres each from the Tongass National ... the Alaska Native Village Municipal ...