Public Weighs in Against Parcels in University Lands Bill

The setting for a Wrangell wilderness therapeutic camp for troubled teenagers would be ruined by logging operations likely to take place nearby if lawmakers approve a land transfer, Alaska Island Community Services Board Member Sylvia Geraghty said.

The 4,000-acre parcel at Sunny Point near the teen camp called Crossings is one of about a dozen contested parcels in Southeast Alaska listed in House Bill 295, which transfers nearly 200,000 acres of state-owned land to the University of Alaska to help finance the college.