Ask people to find the world’s rainforests on a globe, and most will probably point to South America. But North America has rainforests too – and like their tropical counterparts, these temperate ...

Stymied in efforts to construct new roads in national forests, the Bush administration is now trying to subject Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to death by a thousand cuts. At 17 million acres, the ...

If the timber industry in Alaska is looking to harvest more trees, the Trump administration’s proposal to open roadless areas in Tongass National Forest to logging might not be the way to get there.

Industrial-scale logging in the Tongass National Forest was due to monopolies created by the federal government and taxpayer subsidies. Two proposed pulp mills were granted 50-year logging contracts ...

A federal appeals court yesterday struck down a management plan that allows logging on roadless areas in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, handing environmentalists a victory in the battle over wild ...

It banned logging and road construction on roughly 58 million acres of national forest lands across the country, including vast areas of the Tongass National Forest. Mother bear and cub in the Tongass ...

WASHINGTON - The Trump Administration has proposed to exempt the Tongass National Forest from the Roadless Rule. That rule is despised by supporters of the Tongass logging industry. But at a U.S.

Citing a business model focused on healthy oceans, the Sealaska Corp. announced Monday that it would transition out of all logging operations in 2021. A six-year buildup in businesses anchored around ...

In June, the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to put an end to wasteful and destructive federal subsidies for new logging-road construction in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. Now that ...

A state biologist has labeled a logging proposal to hand over 80,000 acres of the Tongass temperate rainforest to Sealaska, a company with a poor environmental record, ‘fatally flawed’. In a letter ...

The Trump administration is looking to remove a 20-year-old set of logging restrictions covering the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, according to reports. Tongass—located in the southeast of the ...

The effort to open the Alaskan wilderness area, the nation’s largest national forest, has been in the works for about two years. By Coral Davenport WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday ...