President Trump issued two new executive orders on March 1 to expand logging in national forests. They could affect Tongass ...

A yet-unknown tree from the Tongass National Forest is slated to make a celebrity-worthy journey across the country this fall before being lit up as the 2024 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree ...

The executive orders are the latest in a decades-long tug-of-war between conservation and development in Tongass National ...

Reversing the Roadless Rule on the Tongass risks dragging us back to the destructive days of clearcut logging, and it’s ...

The Forest Service’s draft Tongass assessment contains “evaluations ... than 30 years he favors an approach allowing higher per-tree profits from limited harvesting of premium wood that ...

Some Sitkans also suggest that Tongass forests are becoming more valuable not as lumber for the market but as vast expanses of trees standing on the mountainsides and along the valley floors.

Eliminating the Roadless Rule across the Tongass opens some 9 million acres of irreplaceable forest to timber industry logging proposals. This could usher in a new wave of clearcutting, wiping out ...

President Donald Trump is promising to unleash the US timber industry by allowing companies to raze swaths of federally ...

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trees and plants. This helps us honor our ancestors and provide for current and future generations. The Roadless Rule must continue to be upheld across the Tongass National Forest.” Wanda Culp ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTVF) - U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski and the U.S. Forest Service announced the Tongass National Forest will provide the U.S. Capitol with their Christmas Tree this year.

Logging in the Tongass has steadily declined since peaking ... could help Alaska's timber industry harvest more younger growth trees. But he cautioned that Trump's actions would not necessarily ...