A long-standing conflict over who represents the interests of tribes is complicating federal decisions on how to manage one of the world’s last intact temperate rainforests, the Tongass National ...

Ask people to find the world’s rainforests on a globe, and most will probably point to South America. But North America has rainforests too – and like their tropical counterparts, these temperate ...

A Trump administration proposal to lift roadless area restrictions on logging and other activities in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest would have only a “modest” effect on timber harvesting, according ...

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The Trump administration has announced plans for a timber sale that would destroy more than 5,100 acres of old-growth habitat in the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska. At 16.7 million acres, ...

Alaska’s Klondike Highway winds through the Tongass National Forest, May 19, 2019 (Photo by Gail Fredericks) The announcement was not a surprise, as the USDA last month, in an environmental review, ...

Despite opposition from environmental and indigenous groups, the Trump administration took a major step on Friday toward exempting the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska from a 2001 rule ...

The Biden administration has restored protections for Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, sometimes called, “America’s Amazon.” The new protections, ...

One of Alaska’s most beloved tourism destinations—the old-growth, wildlife-rich Tongass National Forest—edged one step closer to losing protections last week. On Friday, the U.S. Forest Service ...