JUNEAU, Alaska - A federal government proposal to open parts of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest for commercial logging has raised protests from conservationists and questions from the timber industry ...

The Bush administration exempted 300,000 acres of Alaska's national forest from the so-called "roadless rule" on Tuesday, implemented in 1999 to prevent mining and timber companies from building roads ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A federal agency said Wednesday it is reinstating restrictions on road-building and logging on the country’s largest national forest in southeast Alaska, the latest move in a ...

The Trump administration on Tuesday proposed lifting longstanding restrictions on logging in a southeast Alaska forest, the nation’s largest national forest. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which ...

June 11 (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Friday began a process to reverse a Trump-era policy that opened vast swaths of the largest U.S. national forest, the Tongass in Alaska, to logging and ...

WASHINGTON, June 17 (Reuters) - Environmental advocates readied for battle in Congress this week over what they maintain is an erosion of protections for the biggest, oldest trees in Alaska's Tongass ...