On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska’s panhandle may
look unchanging, but the area is moving rapidly in a geologic sense. The
Division of Forestry is cutting firebreaks in anticipation of fire
season.
Photo: A heavy masticator like this was among the pieces of heavy equipment
used by state Forestry and a contractor to clear vegetation from the
fuel break the agency cut in an area west of the Delta River and the
City of Delta Junction. The masticator knocks down trees and then grinds
them up into chips. (Alaska Division of Forestry
