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Mon Oct 1, 2012


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Four of Southeast’s five largest cities will choose mayors. Tongass Roundtable supports Mental Health Trust land exchanges in several communities. Police in Haines investigate accidental shooting. A river guide has been fined $30,000 for smuggling mammoth fossil.

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Land trusts an enduring framework for affordable housing

Cleo_thumb Trusts are becoming a more common way to create affordable housing, by allowing people to own homes, but not the land underneath them. They have a long track record in the lower 48, for the moment they’re a new idea in Sitka. The Sitka Community Development Corporation would like to change that. Board members and volunteers have launched a campaign to build awareness about Community Land Trusts, and to explain why they think CLT’s are a good fit for Sitka. more

Forest compromise group ends work

A logged area of Admiralty Island sandwiched between stands of old-growth forest regrows. Logging and environmental protection were among the issues the Tongass Futures Roundtable tried to address.The Tongass Futures Roundtable is shutting down. The organization tried to resolve Southeast Alaska forest-issue conflicts. more