2003-02-12 04:00:00 PDT Washington-- An Alaska senator has inserted a number of initiatives into the massive federal spending bill that would increase logging on federal lands, not only in his home ...

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 ...

The state of Alaska, a coalition of business groups and a pair of electric-power organizations have opened a new round in the generation-long fight over environmental protections in Southeast Alaska’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

A U.S. District Court judge in Alaska ruled against the Trump administration late Wednesday, sidelining its plans to open logging in part of the state’s Tongass National Forest. The decision delays ...

KETCHIKAN, Alaska This town of 7,500 people, clinging to tide-swept black rocks near the bottom of the southeastern archipelago of this state, still sees its future in its past. Jilted by the timber ...