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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.

PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND, Alaska — Thousands of acres in southeast Alaska are ready for a second wave of logging, but is the timber industry ready to cut them? That’s the big question as the Forest ...

Want to catch up on big developments quickly? See more stories here. In August, The Washington Post reported that the Trump administration wants to exempt the Tongass from logging restrictions. The ...

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 ...

The U.S. Forest Service recently announced its long-awaited “Record of Decision” on the Tongass logging transition, and not much has changed from the draft. While all parties agree that an end to old ...

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 ...

A regional committee tasked with advising the National Forest Service on how to manage logging in the Tongass began three days of meetings in Juneau Wednesday. The committee’s work is part of a ...