Seattle Times

Alaska’s old-growth forests are our climate-change insurance policy

The Tongass National Forest in Alaska, the crown jewel of our national forest system, is facing an unprecedented threat. At the end of last year, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, introduced two ...

Southeast Alaskans largely critical of new direction on Tongass management plan, process

The U.S. Forest Service is revising the Tongass National Forest management plan, drawing over 300 comments from Southeast ...

Why Juneau should be on every Alaska traveler's bucket list

Juneau, Alaska, offers glaciers, whale watching, and Indigenous history. It's also the only U.S. state not accessible by road ...
Mother Jones

Trump Wants to Log an Enormous Alaska Forest. These Native Women Traveled 3,000 Miles to Stop It.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “If we had dressed in office clothing to meet the standards of DC,” says Wanda Culp, ...
Alaska Public Media

In new challenges to Alaska forest’s ‘Roadless Rule,’ pro-logging arguments have disappeared

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 ...
New York Post

Groups decry proposal to roll back Alaska forest protections

View of the north arm of Tracy Arm, a fjord in Alaska near Juneau, Tongass National Forest, Alaska.Getty Images A forest scene at Takatz Bay on Baranof Island, Tongass National Forest, Alaska.Getty ...
Alaska Public Media

As Alaska's boreal forest warms, land managers face tough questions about how, or whether, to respond

Northern ecosystems are seeing some of the planet's most sweeping changes from climate warming. For some animals and plants, that has posed a threat to their very existence and, for humans, a couple ...
Yahoo

US to end large, old-growth timber sales in Alaska forest

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Thursday that it is ending large-scale, old-growth timber sales in the country's largest national forest — the Tongass National Forest in Alaska — and ...
Alaska Dispatch News

Alaska’s Tongass National Forest will provide this year’s US Capitol Christmas Tree

The U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree will once again come from Alaska this year, specifically from the Tongass National Forest in Southeast. The tree from the Tongass rainforest, known for old-growth trees ...
Alaska Dispatch News

While other populations fluctuate, insects of Alaska’s boreal forest are humming along

Recent long-term studies revealed a three-quarters reduction of insects in parts of Germany and an 80% decline in pollinating flies at a field site in Greenland. What’s going on with numbers of Alaska ...
Center for Biological Diversity

Alaska Native Tribes, Businesses, Forest Advocates Intervene to Protect Tongass National Forest’s Roadless Rule

JUNEAU, Alaska (Áakʼw Ḵwáan Territory)— A broad coalition of Alaska Native Tribes, commercial fishers, small tourism businesses, conservation groups and other forest advocates are seeking to defend ...
Seattle Times

Alaska forest outhouse operation includes helicopter airlift

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Hikers in Alaska’s wilderness at certain times may encounter a federal government operation involving a helicopter and two ground crews. But rather than the sort of clandestine ...