Snow-capped mountains are reflected in the water on May 9, 2022, in the Juneau District of the Tongass National Forest. (Photo by Maya Leschinsky/U.S. Forest Service) Alaska’s Tongass National Forest ...

The Alaska Cabins Project aims to make traveling to Alaska's wilderness easier and more inclusive. Photograph by Amber Johnson, Alamy Overnighting in Alaska’s wilderness is about to get easier. The ...

In its first year, the second Trump administration has rolled back protections across a swath of high-profile public lands in Alaska.

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 ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Plans for managing the nation's largest national forest call for changes in timber harvests that one critic says will be "the demise of the timber industry." The Tongass National ...

As president of the Organized Village of Kasaan, it is my responsibility to work with my tribe to promote, preserve and protect our Indigenous Haida ways of life and values. We develop economic ...

Stretching across nearly 17 million acres, the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska is the largest intact temperate rainforest in the world. In 2001, President Bill Clinton signed the Roadless ...

Federal protections for Alaska's Tongass National Forest will be lifted this week by the Trump administration, allowing "logging and other forms of development" to occur in the world's largest intact ...

A mandate to sell millions of acres of public land was struck from the Republican budget reconciliation bill that’s moving through the U.S. Senate this week, after the Senate parliamentarian ruled on ...

One of the first Executive Orders from the Trump Whitehouse is to reverse environmental protections for federal lands in Alaska and hasten, expand, and encourage resource development. Sec. 2. Policy.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday took a step toward opening up the pristine woodlands of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to logging and road construction, saying it would prefer an ...

Salmon in the Trees tells the story of the Tongass, a 17-million acre temperate rainforest spread along the coast and across thousands of islands in the panhandle of Alaska. With some of the highest ...