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 ...

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 ...

Alaska’s Klondike Highway winds through the Tongass National Forest, May 19, 2019 (Photo by Gail Fredericks) The announcement was not a surprise, as the USDA last month, in an environmental review, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...