The Anchorage Forestry Sciences Lab is set to close, and the future of the Pacific Northwest Research Station lab in Juneau is uncertain, since the U.S. Forest Service began a national restructuring last week.
The agency announced last Tuesday that its headquarters will move to Utah, the existing regional structure will be switched to a state structure and dozens of forest research labs will close. But there are still many unknowns that the agency says will be addressed over the next year.
The agency hasn’t decided yet whether to close the Pacific Northwest Research Station lab in Juneau, according to a letter that Chief of the Forest Service Tom Schultz sent to staff there…