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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reversing the Roadless Rule on the Tongass risks dragging us back to the destructive days of clearcut logging, and it’s simply not what most Alaskans want right now.

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.

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 ...