Alaska’s Tongass National Forest is one of the last great wild places. Spanning nearly 17 million acres in Southeast Alaska, it is the largest national forest in the United States and one of the world ...

President Trump issued two new executive orders on March 1 to expand logging in national forests. They could affect Tongass ...

Trump’s actions are the latest chapter in a decades-long tug-of-war between conservation and development in Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest — by far the largest of the nation’s ...

The only other Capitol tree from Alaska came from the Chugach National Forest in 2015. Since there is a rotation among Forest Service regions for the tree, the Tongass was chosen when Alaska’s ...

Reversing the Roadless Rule on the Tongass risks dragging us back to the destructive days of clearcut logging, and it’s simply not what most Alaskans want right now.

Alaska (Áakʼw Ḵwáan Territory)— A broad coalition of Alaska Native Tribes, commercial fishers, small tourism businesses, conservation groups and other forest advocates are seeking to defend the 2023 ...

A designated wilderness area in Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, the largest U.S. national forest, is now a little bit bigger, thanks to a land purchase and transfer arranged by two ...

After joining the Biden administration's push for younger-growth harvests, an Alaska timber association is asking the Forest ...

JUNEAU, Alaska— A wide-ranging coalition of Indigenous communities from Southeast Alaska, businesses and conservation organizations filed a lawsuit today targeting the Trump administration’s rollback ...

Hunter H. McIntosh is president and executive director of The Boat Company, a nonprofit eco-cruise operation.

The Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association ... Service “undertake a Salmon Conservation Rulemaking for the Tongass National Forest to respond to recent run declines.” ...