JUNEAU, Alaska — Alaska state troopers say a Forks man was killed in logging accident in southeast Alaska. Troopers have identified the man as 42-year-old James Michael Wallace of Forks. Wallace was ...

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration ruled Friday that it will not provide wilderness protection to millions of acres of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. The decision by the U.S. Forest Service ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service denied endangered species protection today to the Alaska yellow cedar, which is threatened by the climate crisis and expanded logging in the ...

FILE - Tourists visiting the Mendenhall Glacier in the Tongass National Forest are reflected in a pool of water as they make their way to Nugget Falls in Juneau, Alaska, on July 31, 2013. The federal ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has instructed Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to exempt Alaska’s 16.7 million-acre Tongass National Forest from logging restrictions imposed nearly 20 years ago ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CN) — The Biden administration has proposed repealing a Trump-era exemption to the Alaska Roadless Rule for the Tongass National Forest, the largest national forest in the United States and home to a ...

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 ...

JUNEAU — 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 industry. The ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has instructed Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to exempt Alaska’s 16.7 million-acre Tongass National Forest from logging restrictions imposed nearly 20 years ago ...