By executive order, President Donald Trump reinstated the Tongass National Forest Roadless Rule exemption, reversing action ...

wet old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest, which stretch from northwestern California to southeastern Alaska. These forests, which contain Douglas fir, coast redwood, western hemlock ...

The rule recognizes that Southeast Alaska’s future depends on sustainable uses of the forest. It’s intended to prevent large-scale industrial logging like clear cutting and to conserve the region’s ...

Rodger Painter says in a commentary that Tongass pulp mills closed primarily due to tree farms in climates where forests grow ...

Two proposed pulp mills were granted 50-year logging contracts in territorial days: Ketchikan Pulp Company in Ketchikan was ...

A group of southeast Alaska tribal leaders issued a statement ... rushing rivers and virgin old-growth forest. “This is great news for the forest, the salmon, the wildlife, and the people ...

Larger expanses of old growth survive in Alaska, such as within the Tongass National Forest. Old-growth timber harvests in the Tongass were limited in 2021 to small commercial sales. Those would ...

“As humans, our everyday lives are sustained by the behaviors and interactions of forest organisms,” photographer David Herasimtschuk writes of old growth forests. “Yet, because these ...

New research reveals that a termite shortage might be at the root of slower decomposition of dead wood in second growth ...