The agency says a larger workforce will help it catch up on a backlog of maintenance projects and keep up with the tourism boom in Southeast Alaska. The agency says a larger workforce will help it catch up on a backlog of maintenance projects and keep up with the tourism boom in Southeast Alaska.
The workforce in the Tongass National Forest has grown a lot over the last couple of years, thanks to some major infusions of federal money.
“We were losing our spending power, we were seeing very diminished budgets and the inability to do work,” Anderson said. “It also translated in the inability to hire people to do that work, whether you’re hiring contractors, Forest Service workforce or partnering. That decline is significant.” And they’ve introduced 22 new staff positions for the special uses program, which mainly does permitting.
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