Southeast Cluster Initiative: Forest Products

Southeast Alaska Forest Products Action Initiatives

1. Use Young Growth Wood for Cabin & Recreational Structures on Prince of Wales Island
2. Simplify Small Timber Sale Process to Allow Small Mills on Prince of Wales Island to Operate More Efficiently, Economically, and with More Supply Certainty
3. Increase Knowledge about Building with Alaskan Wood and Influence Attitudes about Southeast Alaska Woodworking Industries
4. Continuously Improve Select USFS Processes
5. Establish the "Tongass National Forest - Congressionally Designated Timberlands" to Provide a Secure and Perpetual Working Forest Land Base Managed Under Forest Regulations and Guidelines that Streamline Process and Improve Predictable Delivery of Supply
6. Biomass to Energy
7. Conduct a Timber Base Analysis to Determine the Volume of Young Growth and Old Growth Supply Available for Sustaining and Strengthening the Forest Industry in Southeast Alaska
8. Create a 1.5 Million Acre State Forest (from Tongass lands) to be Managed by State of Alaska
9. Restore a Viable, Diversified Timber Industry in Southeast Alaska