JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A federal government proposal to open parts of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest for commercial logging has raised protests from conservationists and questions from the timber ...

2003-02-12 04:00:00 PDT Washington-- An Alaska senator has inserted a number of initiatives into the massive federal spending bill that would increase logging on federal lands, not only in his home ...

That doesn’t make sense.” Alaska Wanted the Rule Removed The Roadless Rule was originally established in the final days of Bill Clinton’s presidency. It banned logging and road construction on roughly ...

Sun shines through the canopy in the Tongass National Forest. (Photo by Brian Logan/U.S. Forest Service) The state of Alaska, a coalition of business groups and a pair of electric-power organizations ...

The U.S. Forest Service gave proper approval to logging and road construction in southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled Tuesday. (CN) – The U.S. Forest Service gave ...

Large-scale logging on the Yukon River started about a hundred years ago, when steamships burned a cord of wood per hour to power their engines. Village residents clear-cut wide swathes of forest ...