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Tok gets Stoked on Wood Heat
After three years of development, wood heats Tok school.

Students from the Tok School holding up wood chips that are used to fire the boiler.

by Jeffrey Hermanns, Forester
Alaska Division of Forestry

Alaska winter months are cold, but the children going to school in Tok are warmed by the very trees that have been removed to protect them, and wiser about the immense northern boreal forest surrounding the community.

On October 29, 2010, the woodchip-fired boiler at the Tok School was lit for the first time. Read more->

Chip Bok
bokbluster.com
Feb 21, 2012

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