Trustees to vote again on Deer Mountain plan

Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority’s board of trustees meets this week, and will vote on a “reconsideration” of an August decision to move forward with logging parts of Deer Mountain in Ketchikan and a parcel in Petersburg that sits above homes.
Trust officials visited Ketchikan and Petersburg earlier this month to talk about those plans. They said that, if logging does happen, it would be selective logging by helicopter, not clear cutting.
Logging on those parcels would