The U.S. Forest Service has initiated a revision of the Tongass National Forest plan. At stake is whether the Forest Service ...

The agency plans to hold meetings in 18 Southeast communities to collect public input from late March through early May.

Judge Sharon Gleason on Friday dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Alaska Forest Association, Alcan Timber and Viking Lumber ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Alaska's boreal forest is one of the largest trappers of carbon dioxide in the world. But as the state warms twice as fast as the rest of the U.S., once frozen land is now thawed out and up for grabs.

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One of Alaska’s most beloved tourism destinations—the old-growth, wildlife-rich Tongass National Forest—edged one step closer to losing protections last week. On Friday, the U.S. Forest Service ...

Jill Johnstone, University of Saskatchewan; Heather Dawn Alexander, Auburn University; Michelle C. Mack, Northern Arizona University, and Xanthe Walker, Northern Arizona University Fire is a hot topic ...