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Preliminary decision out for part of Petersburg borough’s land entitlement
Posted by Joe Viechnicki | Feb 16, 2021
Lands outlined in yellow on southern Mitkof Island would be transferred to the borough government. (Image from the Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mining, Land and Water, Land Conveyance Section)
The state of Alaska has issued the first of several expected preliminary decisions to transfer some land to the Petersburg borough. It’s part of a large land entitlement that goes along with the creation of the borough government in 2013.
When Petersburg expanded its boundaries in 2013, the size of the municipal government’s state land entitlement increased. Then it increased a whole lot more with the passage of a 2017 state law. Most of of that land has yet to change hands and it’s a long process. But this decision identifies 1,452 acres the state proposes to turn over to the municipal government.
Some Petersburg area roads damaged in December deluge
Posted by Joe Viechnicki | Dec 9, 2020
Trees block a forest road on Mitkof Island south of Petersburg. (Photo by U.S. Forest Service law enforcement officer Joey Boggs)
Heavy rainfall damaged some forest roads, caused at least one landslide and flooded some ditches, yards and homes in the Petersburg area last week. But the area escaped relatively unscathed compared to the natural disaster that occurred to the north in Haines.
The late November early December storm dumped inches of rain on the region and did some damage to forest roads on the Tongass National Forest in this area.