The executive orders are the latest in a decades-long tug-of-war between conservation and development in Tongass National ...

Reversing the Roadless Rule on the Tongass risks dragging us back to the destructive days of clearcut logging, and it’s ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — President Donald Trump's expansive executive order aimed at boosting oil and gas drilling, mining and logging in Alaska is being cheered by state political leaders who see ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov ... the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and reversing restrictions on logging and road-building in a temperate rainforest that provides habitat for ...

The president wants to circumvent environmental regulations to expand timber production, something sought by homebuilders and ...

The rule recognizes that Southeast Alaska’s future depends on sustainable uses of the forest. It’s intended to prevent large-scale industrial logging like clear cutting and to conserve the region’s ...

Legal trapping recently killed more than half the wolves in one key population on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska. The Trump administration opened hundreds of thousands of acres of the wolf ...

Trump's plans could open 9 million acres of the 17 million-acre forest for logging and mining. Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Monday said the president's actions could create "great paying jobs" in ...

Environmental groups say increased logging would decimate U.S. forests, pollute air and water and devastate wildlife habitats. And because trees absorb and store carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — President Donald Trump has issued several executive orders in recent weeks to expand logging in the nation's forests, but stakeholders say the recent mass firings of U.S. Forest ...