Residents have long said the timber sale is just too close to homes.
A ribbon marks a tree in the Prince of Wales Island town of Whale Pass. .The Southeast island community of Whale Pass is asking the state to pursue carbon credits instead of a nearby timber sale. But the state says it’s going ahead with the logging project.
“No one’s really anti-logging out of this whole group,” said Greeley. “We’re just kind of saying, you know, maybe not this timber sale.” This follows a new state law that allows the Department of Natural Resources to develop a system to use the state’s forested land to sell carbon-offset credits. Companies would basically pay the state to keep its trees intact.
“They’re telling me that they can’t give me a bigger buffer on my property, because they won’t be able to cover the cost of building the road, to even have the timber sale,” Greeley. “Versus if they don’t even have to do anything, they’re gonna make 10 times as much.” In February, Greg Staunton, the state’s area forester, told CoastAlaska that they have to provide old-growth logging near communities in some cases.
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