John Sturgeon’s lament (“Don’t turn oil into the next timber industry demise”) about the decline of the 20th-century Alaska timber industry raises a profound truth, one to be celebrated — after 50 ...

“Threads of the Tongass” is a series of stories that explore how lives in Southeast Alaska are interwoven with the Tongass National Forest during a time of political, cultural, and environmental ...

As a daughter and niece of sawmill owners, I disagree with Kate Glover’s article dated March 12, “Southeast Alaskans want sustainable economies, not extractive industry, within the Tongass National ...

In a Sept. 8 opinion piece, USDA Secretary Rollins suggested Southeast Alaska’s prosperity depends on reviving industrial-scale timber harvests on public lands. For 17,000 years, Indigenous people of ...

A federal judge in Alaska has rejected a lawsuit that sought to reinstate a management plan that would allow heavier logging in the world’s largest temperate old-growth rainforest. The result leaves ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service has awarded a contract for a timber sale in southeast Alaska to the region’s last mid-size mill, Viking Lumber Co. SBA moves to terminate ‘economically ...

The Republican senator wants more funding for new programs after the administration reinstated limits on timber harvesting in 2021. The Biden administration’s plan to help southeastern Alaska adjust ...

The log storage facility would be located in Haines' Lutak Inlet, pictured above in August 2025. A company under contract for a major timber sale in Haines is trying again to secure a permit to store ...

This map depicts the plan the U.S. Forest Service approved for the Thomas Bay timber sale. The yellow represents the available young growth stands. The brown areas are sections that will be harvested ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resoures talk with reporters at Juneau International Airport on Monday, Aug. 25, ...

The case put the Trump administration, which aims to boost logging, in the unusual position of arguing against expanded harvests. The Forest Service isn’t legally obligated to meet timber harvesting ...

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