Alaska’s new state forester, Helge Eng, grew up in Oslo, Norway, at nearly the same latitude as Anchorage.

“I’ve always considered Alaska kind of home in the sense that I was born and raised in a similar climate,” he told CoastAlaska in a recent interview from Anchorage.

Eng just finished a 21-year career in California where, despite making his home in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, he said the dry heat spells were hard to escape.

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