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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 -- President Donald Trump's administration Tuesday proposed allowing logging on more than half of Alaska's 16.7 million-acre Tongass National Forest, the largest intact temperate rain ...

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 ...