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Alaska: FBI
tries to track mystery travelers; Chartering flight to village
near pipeline raises suspicions - Amid heightened security
by police and military agencies in Alaska, a bulletin was posted
on the state's Homeland Security Web site: The FBI was looking
for a man who booked a flight Sunday to a remote village near
the trans-Alaska oil pipeline. - Read
this story...
Anchorage Daily News - Wednesday
- December 24, 2003
Alaska: New
terror warnings set Valdez residents on edge - Isolated and
sparsely populated Alaska seemed far removed from terrorist threats
until yesterday, when U.S. officials said al-Qaida operatives
could target remote sites such as oil facilities in the state.
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this story...
Seattle Times
- Wednesday - December 24, 2003
Alaska: Decision
opens up Tongass lands; Government saws 300,000 acres off roadless
protection listing - Reversing a Clinton-era policy, the
Bush administration opened 300,000 more acres of Alaska's Tongass
National Forest on Tuesday to possible logging or other development.
- Read
this story...
Anchorage Daily News - Wednesday
- December 24, 2003
Alaska: Alaska's
Exports Continue Upward Trend; Seafood, Precious Metals Improvement
Contribute to $106 Million Increase - Alaska's sales
of goods to foreign countries continued their upward trend in
the third quarter of 2003, posting an increase of $106 million
to $2.2 billion, up 5 percent over the same period last year.
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more...
Wednesday - December 24, 2003 - 1:00 am
Ketchikan: Decision
Paves Way For Resumption of Some Wood Harvest From Tongass
- The hope is that the ruling will also pave the way for
a veneer plant in Ketchikan to reopen thereby restoring important
jobs to Ketchikan's economy, said Sen. Lisa Murkowski. - Read
more...
Wednesday - December 24, 2003 - 1:00 am
SE Alaska: Southeast
Alaska timber industry celebrates logging decision - A decision
by the Bush Administration to exempt prime timberland in the
Tongass National Forest from Clinton-era logging protections
was praised in Southeast Alaska on Tuesday. - Read
this story...
Fairbanks Daily News Miner
- link posted Wednesday - December 24, 2003
Ketchikan:
Listen to this story... The U.S. Department
of Agriculture today announced that the Tongass National Forest
would be exempt from the 2001 National Roadless Rule. As Deanna
Garrison reports, the decision potentially opens up about 300,000
acres of national forest to logging in Southeast Alaska.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- link posted Wednesday - December 24, 2003
Alaska:
Listen to this story... The Department of
Homeland Security's decision to increase the country's alert
status to high has affected airport security across the state.
Deanna Garrison reports.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- link posted Wednesday - December 24, 2003
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Ketchikan: Part
of Tongass National Forest Open to Logging; Governor Murkowski
Welcomes Good News - The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced
today that it would not apply the roadless rule to the Tongass
National Forest, completing the settlement of a court challenge
to the roadless rule brought by the State of Alaska. . This decision
maintains the balance for roadless area protection struck in
the Tongass Land Management Plan, providing opportunities for
sustainable economic development in Southeast Alaska while ensuring
that the vast majority of the Tongass remains off limits to development.
- Read
more...
Tuesday - December 23, 2003 - 6:55 pm
Ketchikan: Greenpeace
Blasts Decision to Exclude Tongass From Roadless Rule - In
response to the Bush Administration announcement today that it
would exclude the Tongass National Forest in Alaska from the
landmark Roadless Area Conservation Rule, Greenpeace said this
decision was made despite overwhelming public support for keeping
the forest intact. In keeping with the Administration's practice
of "stealth" policy moves, the change was made with
little fanfare in the midst of the Christmas holidays to avoid
public scrutiny said the Greenpeace organization in a news release.
- Read
more...
Tuesday - December 23, 2003 - 6:55 pm
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