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Buying a Wood Burning Stove in Sitka |
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As oil prices continue to rise and as Sitka’s electric demand approaches the supply
limits, many Sitkan’s are looking for alternative options for home
heating. Across the board, everyone is
choosing some sort of “dual-fuel” heating system that can use electricity when
there is an ample supply and an alterative when hydro-electric sources are
stretched thin.
More often,
home owners are choosing wood heating as a carbon-neutral option that takes
advantage of local resources. Choosing a
wood burning stove can be difficult. The
following article outlines the experiences of some of our members and what they
learned as they choose a stove for their home:
Click here to read the article |
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SCS Tongass Summer Boat Cruise
Majestic Southern Baranof Wilderness - Exploring West Crawfish Inlet
Sunday, August 24th -- 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. -- departing from Crescent Harbor
$40, tickets available at Old Harbor Books
Follow the rugged coast of Baranof Island
to a deep fjord that runs far up into the island. Visit Southern
Baranof Wilderness. A most scenic destination!
For more information and to see the 2008 Summer Boat Cruise schedule click here
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The Tongass Forest Plan Amendment Record of Decision, Final Forest Plan and Final EIS have been released
On the day after Valentine’s Day, February 15th,
2008, the Bush administration officially released the new Tongass Land
Management Plan (TLMP) as a belated token of affection to the timber industry. The new TLMP opens up 3.4 million acres to
logging and mining. Nearly two-thirds of
those acres are now roadless and timber extraction in those areas will require
generous public road construction subsidies in order to generate raw log
exports for mills in the lower 48 and in Asia.
The outgoing administration proposes to
extract up to 267 million board feet of timber per year - about six times the
amount that timber operators have been willing to purchase annually since the
turn of the century.
Although this new plan generously bestows affection on the
timber industry, it leaves other users of forest resources broken-hearted by
compromising recreational, educational, fisheries, subsistence and wildlife
values. The Sitka Community Use Area
will face further loss of winter deer habitat and further degradation of
important salmon habitat. The Sitka
Conservation Society will file an administrative appeal of this new plan in
order to encourage the Forest Service to develop a plan that meets the real
needs of Tongass National Forest users in the 21st century – a plan
that prioritizes restoration and allows for the maintenance and growth of the
region’s key economic sectors:
subsistence, fisheries and outdoor recreation and tourism.
Learn more...
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Groundtruthing reports available! |
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 With the Groundtruthing Project, we are staying
at the leading edge of critical Tongass conservation issues. We spent the first two years of the project focusing
on old growth timber projects and collecting data to challenge upcoming sales. In 2007 and 2008 we are evaluating what it would
take to repair the ecological damage caused by a half-century timber harvest on the Tongass.
Click
here to see a sample of our reports we've produced . |
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Energy Conservation Brochures |
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This
past summer SCS collaborated with the City of Sitka’s Electrical Department to host
an energy conservation intern who developed 6 brochures on how Sitkan’s can
reduce their energy consumption and reduce their overall carbon emissions.
Click
here to link to the brochures |
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