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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.

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

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 Trump administration proposal to lift roadless area restrictions on logging and other activities in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest would have only a “modest” effect on timber harvesting, according ...

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

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

On Wednesday, the Trump administration published a rule that will strip protections from 9.4 million acres of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska. The move is being made despite overwhelming ...

JUNEAU, Alaska— A coalition of conservation groups, Alaska tribes, a commercial fishing advocacy group and an ecotourism operator today filed a request to intervene in a timber industry legal ...

The U.S. Forest Service awarded grants this summer that could help revitalize the logging industry in the Tongass National Forest. Two businesses in Southeast Alaska have received hundreds of ...