We’re back from the Tongass, the nearly 17-million-acre national forest in Southeast Alaska that now sits at the center of some of the most consequential conservation fights in America. The future of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Snow-capped mountains are reflected in the water on May 9, 2022, in the Juneau District of the Tongass National Forest. (Photo by ...

Tlingit and Haida recently harvested totem trees in the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska whose rings suggest they are 500 years old. Members of those nations don’t often take saws to those ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tongass National Forest (Photo by U.S. Forest Service) The U.S. Forest Service has initiated a revision of the Tongass National ...

A Southeast Alaska Tribe and two conservation groups filed a motion today in federal court in Alaska to halt the first timber sale connected to a recently-approved, large-scale, old-growth logging ...

UnCruise Adventures is calling for the protection of the Tongass National Forest after the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the Environmental Impact Statement that will withdraw the Roadless ...

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 ...

Rural communities bordering the Tongass National Forest harvest more than 4.5 million pounds of wild food per year, including 100 different species that our public lands help support. Just how much ...

The Trump administration’s agenda to repeal Roadless Rule protections on the Tongass doesn’t square with a popular vision of sustainable local economies dependent on intact forest ecosystems In an ...

A yet-unknown tree from the Tongass National Forest is slated to make a celebrity-worthy journey across the country this fall before being lit up as the 2024 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree, only the ...

The U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree will once again come from Alaska this year, specifically from the Tongass National Forest in Southeast. The tree from the Tongass rainforest, known for old-growth trees ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CN) — Significant amounts of old-growth trees in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest are on the federal chopping block, prompting a Thursday lawsuit from the Ketchikan Indian Community ...