Deer Mountain logging off the table for now

A springtime view of Deer Mountain. (File photo by Leila Kheiry/KRBD)
The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority’s Trust Land Office is no longer pursuing action toward timber sales on Deer Mountain or land in Petersburg.
The trust board meets next week – Jan. 25 and 26 – and in the meeting packet is a memo from Trust Land Office Executive Director John Morrison.
Morrison writes that while a federal land exchange deal wasn’t approved by Congress during its last se