Petersburg Ranger District to relocate staff to Scow Bay while downtown office gets renovated
Petersburg’s Ranger District has started emptying out its iconic downtown office building for renovations.
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by Shelby Herbert | Sep 4, 2024 | Featured News, Local News, Syndicated | 0
Petersburg’s Ranger District has started emptying out its iconic downtown office building for renovations.
Read Moreby Olivia Schmidt | Jul 29, 2024 | Featured News, Local News, Syndicated | 0
A visually striking but ecologically devastating plant is spreading through Southeast Alaska: the orange hawkweed.
Read Moreby Shelby Herbert | Jul 18, 2024 | Featured News, Local News, Syndicated | 0
A Forest Service entomologist says the Tongass is emerging from the latest insect outbreaks with “a bad haircut,” but it’s all part of a natural process.
Read Moreby Shelby Herbert, Colette Czarnecki | Jun 25, 2024 | Featured News, Local News, Syndicated | 0
A Petersburg seiner overturned just south of Wrangell in Anita Bay at about 10 a.m. on June 25. The crew of the Pamela Rae made it out unharmed, except for one person who sustained a minor injury.
Read Moreby Shelby Herbert | Mar 11, 2024 | Featured News, Local News, Syndicated | 0
Petersburg’s Ranger District is taking public comment on proposed changes to its local facilities — including its iconic Brutalist office building downtown.
Read Moreby Shelby Herbert | Jan 25, 2024 | Featured News, Local News, Syndicated | 0
In 2023, Petersburg’s economy got a boost from an unexpected source — film and TV crews. Three reality TV shows and one feature-length documentary were shot in town. But not everybody in the community is happy to see their backyard on TV.
Read Moreby Shelby Herbert | Oct 12, 2023 | Featured News, Local News, Syndicated | 0
The cast and crew of a reality television show will start filming in the second weekend of October in a popular hunting spot near Petersburg. They’ll stay there for the next 40 days. That means a longer season for some local transportation and hospitality businesses — but the project is also pushing aside hunters in the middle of deer and moose season.
Read Moreby Shelby Herbert | Sep 24, 2023 | Featured News, Local News, Syndicated | 0
A group of U.S. Forest Service personnel from the Petersburg Ranger District traveled to Kake late last month to help put on the annual Children’s Fishing Derby, where Kake youth practiced catching and identifying fish with the visiting scientists.
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