The Tongass Futures Roundtable will be meeting at the Anchorage Hilton (500 West 3rd Avenue) on October 1-2. This will be the first time that the Roundtable has met in Anchorage. A reception will be hosted by the Roundtable on the evening of September 30th, also at the Hilton. A draft agenda for the meeting can be found by going to the Meetings tab.

The Tongass Futures Roundtable met in Coffman Cove on May 20-22, 2009. Several actions were taken at the meeting including an update of the Roundtable Charter and actions on four items: 1) A motion concerning moving forward with a Young Growth Inventory for the Tongass National Forest; 2) Support for Stimulus Funding; 3) Support for Stewardship Contract Funding; and 4) Support for Retooling Legislation. Each of these actions can be reviewed by going to the Meeting tab or clicking here.

A tentative agenda for the Coffman Cove Roundtable meeting to be held on May 20-22, 2009, has now been posted to the Meetings webpage. The Roundtable meeting will begin on Wednesday, the 20th at noon, and continue until lunch on the 22nd. For more information, please click on this link. In addition to the tentative agenda, changes to the Roundtable Charter, as proposed by the Administrative Committee, are posted on the Meetings web page. The proposed changes are shown in TRAK format.

The Roundtable amended its statement on Biomass Energy at its February 2009 meeting. The revised statement can be viewed on the Biomass Energy Issues page.