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Director: borough used earmark funds to remove hazard trees; code enforcement handling trespass cases
Summary
Kenai Peninsula Borough planning staff said Oct. 13 that contractors cut nearly 4,000 beetle-killed trees around Key Beach using congressional earmark funds and Firewise techniques, and that the borough is addressing recent trespass reports on borough parcels through code enforcement procedures.
Kenai Peninsula Borough Planning Director (acting) provided updates Oct. 13 on a beetle-kill tree-removal effort funded by a congressional earmark and on the borough's approach to trespass on borough-owned parcels.
Director Ruffner told the commission that contractors had removed "almost 4,000 trees" in the Key Beach area, work done largely on private property after obtaining property-owner permission when required. The director said the removal used Firewise methods — stems saved for firewood, brush chipped or placed on the ground — and that the…
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