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 ...

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 ...

New roads will open up virgin logging areas in Alaska’s misty and majestic Tongass National Forest, home to the world’s largest remaining tracts of old-growth temperate rain forest, under a proposed ...

The state of Alaska, a coalition of business groups and a pair of electric-power organizations have opened a new round in the generation-long fight over environmental protections in Southeast Alaska’s ...

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 ...

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 ...