Alaska-News-Release: Newly Appointed Kenai Peninsula-Anchorage Borough RAC First Meets

["Sara Boario" <sboario@xxxxxxxxx>]

NEWS RELEASE
USDA Forest Service, Chugach
National Forest                
               

Contact:      
  Bobbie Jo Skibo, Kenai-Anchorage RAC Coordinator
907-288-7739


Newly Appointed Kenai Peninsula-Anchorage
Borough RAC First Meets 

Members meet June 12 to provide
recommendations to Forest Service on forest improvement projects

 Anchorage, Alaska-
Members of the newly-formed Kenai Peninsula-Anchorage Resource Advisory
Committee (RAC) will meet Saturday, June 12, 2010, at the Begich Boggs
Visitor’s Center from 9 a.m.- 5:30 p.m. The 15 members were recently appointed
by Secretary of Agriculture to provide recommendations to the Forest Service
on forest improvement projects.
 
Saturday, the RAC will be meeting
for the purpose of establishing the Committee through the development of
bylaws, a chairperson, and a future meeting schedule. In the coming year,
they will discuss and deliberate on recommended project proposals that
may be submitted by members of the public, Forest Service employees, and
RAC members themselves. The public input and comment forum will take place
the afternoon of June 12, 2010.  Interested citizens are encouraged
to attend.

The RAC provides advice and recommendations
to the Forest Service on the development and implementation of special
projects that will enhance or improve the forest under the provisions of
Title II of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act
of 2008. The RAC currently has access to over $300,000 in Title II funds
from 2009 and 2010 to fund these projects. The Act runs through 2012 and
the RAC will receive additional annual funding as it becomes available.

The Kenai Peninsula/Anchorage RAC
members represent diverse interests and areas of expertise. Each member
had to apply for the position, be nominated, and appointed by the Secretary
of Agriculture. The designated federal official for this RAC is Chugach
National Forest Seward Ranger Travis Moseley. 

For more information go to:  http://www.fs.fed.us/srs/

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