Chiniak’s burn area is looking pretty green after replanting

A Sitka spruce seedling emerges from the ground where the Chiniak fire left a burn area in 2015. (Photo courtesy Maggie Slife)
Kodiak Island Borough resource manager and officer Maggie Slife was part of a group that went out on a rainy day to inspect the completed replanting of the burn area the Chiniak fire left behind in 2015.
Recently, crews planted 200,000 Sitka spruce seedlings in the area. Slife said things looked good, but it’ll take some time before the burn area fully grows b