Borough hopes for timber sale partnerships with state agencies

The borough owns about 12,000 acres on Wrangell Island and wants to work with two different state agencies that hold several thousand acres more to see if they can coordinate small-scale timber sales on the island.

“By pooling our resources … we put ourselves in a better position,” Borough Manager Mason Villarma said.

The borough assembly last month approved a memorandum of understanding to work with the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority, which owns a little over 4,000 acres across the island. The agreement calls for working together toward possible timber sales and residential subdivisions...