President Trump late Monday issued a pair of executive orders that seek to bolster oil and gas drilling — including in ...
The decision to again lift limits on roadless-area development sets up a rematch over the Tongass National Forest.
For those who want to base in a town but want to avoid the crowds and development of Anchorage, the forest's eastern edge is near the town of Cordova, a hidden destination on Alaska's coast.
(Photo by Alicia Stearns/U.S. Forest Service) Rural schools, mostly in Southeast Alaska, are facing a major funding shortfall this year after the U.S. House of Representatives failed to reauthorize a ...
Trump intends to reopen the Tongass National Forest to logging. But environmentalists and tribal governments envision a more ...
On Thursday, amidst the wildfires happening in Los Angeles, the Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection (DOF) deployed two of their employees to assist in what they referred to as a nationwide ...
JUNEAU, Alaska (Áakʼw Ḵwáan Territory)— A broad coalition of Alaska Native Tribes, commercial fishers, small tourism businesses, conservation groups and other forest advocates are seeking to defend ...
The Parks Highway was closed in both directions north of Cantwell on Friday after debris from an avalanche crossed the roadway. The avalanche at Mile 219 closed the Parks Highway as of 10 a.m. Friday, ...
At an open house Wednesday, some of the people the Mendenhall Glacier poles are meant to honor said they should be included ...
Over the next several decades, the Forest Service created seven smokejumper bases in the lower 48, and the Bureau of Land Management established two, including the one in Alaska. Today roughly 450 ...
The land has been under U.S. Forest Service jurisdiction since the early 1900s. But, the State of Alaska argued that the ownership should have turned over to Alaska at statehood. Both the lake and ...
The partisan divide over natural resource protections took a hard shift to the right with the inauguration of President Trump ...