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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...