A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by timber industry groups and operators seeking to force increased old-growth logging in the Tongass National Forest, ruling the plaintiffs failed to ...
The case put the Trump administration, which aims to boost logging, in the unusual position of arguing against expanded harvests. The Forest Service isn’t legally obligated to meet timber harvesting ...
A court ruled that a 2016 management plan doesn't legally bind the Forest Service to hold log sales in Alaska's Tongass National Forest.Salwan Georges/The Washington Post/Getty Images A federal court ...
From Southeast logging camps to North Slope rigs, the lesson is the same: When policy drives investment away, jobs and ...
The Trump administration is turning to rarely used laws to circumvent environmental restrictions and expand logging in ...
Sun shines through the canopy in the Tongass National Forest. (Photo by Brian Logan/U.S. Forest Service) The state of Alaska, a coalition of business groups and a pair of electric-power organizations ...
The U.S. Forest Service rule restricts development on more than nine million acres in North America’s largest temperate rainforest, reversing a Trump decision. WASHINGTON — The Biden administration ...
Major Alaska resource projects, and the land they could be built on, may be at stake in the presidential election. They include drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and elsewhere in Alaska, ...