Reporting from Kake, Alaska — A few years ago, the U.S. Forest Service was getting ready to open up several large stands of old-growth trees here on Kupreanof Island in an attempt to sustain southeast ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Thursday it is ending large-scale, old-growth timber sales on the nation’s largest national forest — the Tongass National Forest in Alaska — and will ...

That doesn’t make sense.” Alaska Wanted the Rule Removed The Roadless Rule was originally established in the final days of Bill Clinton’s presidency. It banned logging and road construction on roughly ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A federal government proposal to open parts of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest for commercial logging has raised protests from conservationists and questions from the timber ...

The Tongass Advisory Committee, convened by the U.S. Forest Service to discuss management of the Tongass in a time of transition from old-growth logging, is set to offer recommendations soon.

New roads will open up virgin logging areas in Alaska’s misty and majestic Tongass National Forest, home to the world’s largest remaining tracts of old-growth temperate rain forest, under a proposed ...

U.S. President Biden departs Washington on travel to England from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Friday began a process to reverse a Trump-era policy that opened ...

A 55-year-old man from Nevada has been found dead at a logging site on Zarembo Island in Southeast Alaska, according to Alaska State Troopers. Around 5 p.m. Tuesday, troopers received a report of the ...