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Conservation groups’ purchase preserves additional land in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest
A designated wilderness area in Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National ... for The Wilderness Land Trust. A map shows the sites in the Tongass National Forest where the Wilderness Land Trust ...
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Trump orders more logging in national forests, but impacts on Alaska’s Tongass are unclear after firings
Trump’s actions are the latest chapter in a decades-long tug-of-war between conservation and development in Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest — by far the largest of the nation’s ...
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The Tongass National Forest is a national treasure worth more than timber
Commentary author Hunter H. McIntosh writes that despite its immense ecological and economic value, the Tongass remains under ...
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Alaska Native Tribes, Businesses, Forest Advocates Intervene to Protect Tongass National Forest’s Roadless Rule
In January 2023 the U.S. Forest Service reinstated the Roadless Rule on the Tongass National Forest, a decision widely celebrated by Tribal Nations in Southeast Alaska, across Alaska and nationally.