KETCHIKAN, Alaska This town of 7,500 people, clinging to tide-swept black rocks near the bottom of the southeastern archipelago of this state, still sees its future in its past. Jilted by the timber ...

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 ...

2003-02-12 04:00:00 PDT Washington-- An Alaska senator has inserted a number of initiatives into the massive federal spending bill that would increase logging on federal lands, not only in his home ...

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 ...

The U.S. Forest Service gave proper approval to logging and road construction in southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled Tuesday. (CN) – The U.S. Forest Service gave ...

The Trump administration says the Tongass National Forest is America’s best carbon warehouse—so it’s fine to increase logging there. The Forest Service last week released a draft environmental impact ...

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.