Sealaska pursues forestry work.

• Author: Pounds, Nancy
• Position: SILVICULTURE

Sealaska Corp. invested about $1.5 million this year in silviculture treatments--or forestry management--of its lands. The investment helped create more than 40 jobs in rural communities, according to Sealasaka officials. The Juneau-based Alaska Native corporation's natural resources department has been providing management and forestry services since 1993. Chris E. McNeil Jr., Sealaska president and chief executive, believes the company's experience will help secure American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds. "Increasing silviculture in the region is good for the...