United States Forest Service

The U.S. Forest Service applied for another 20-year withdrawal of the Russian River watershed, which exempts a 3,000-square-mile area of Chugach National Forest from mining claims. The purpose is to protect fishing and recreation on the river.

The Village of Ionia near Kasilof will take in spruce bark beetle kill logs from the Chugach National Forest to burn in their woodfire heaters, and to use for building homes and furniture.

“The main purpose is to fix that wall, to shore it up, and essentially to prevent the road from washing into the Kenai River,” Jesse Labenski of the Forest Service said. “That is the big, main point right there, that would be pretty catastrophic for the fishery, not to mention the people that would end up stuck on the other side of the road.”

The hikers were about two-thirds of the way down the trail toward the Cooper Landing trailhead when they called for help.

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