AMHTA to hold meeting on land exchange and helicopter logging near Petersburg

The Alaska Mental

Health and Trust Authority will hold a community

meeting at the Sons of Norway Hall tonight, October 27 from 7-9 p.m. to talk about their hope to exchange land with the US Forest Service and the potential for selective helicopter logging on land they own near Petersburg.

AMHTA has been working towards a land exchange deal for 10 years and in September announced they would move ahead with selective logging on their land in both Petersburg and on Deer Mountain in Ketchikan if Congress failed to approve the land exchange by Jan. 15, 2017.

The Mitkof Highway Homeowners Associatio...