PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND, Alaska — Thousands of acres in southeast Alaska are ready for a second wave of logging, but is the timber industry ready to cut them? That’s the big question as the Forest ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) look at some old-growth logs in the yard at Viking Lumber in Klawock. The two toured Prince of Wales Island on June 5 ...

The Republican senator wants more funding for new programs after the administration reinstated limits on timber harvesting in 2021. The Biden administration’s plan to help southeastern Alaska adjust ...

“Threads of the Tongass” is an ongoing series that explores how lives in Southeast Alaska are interwoven with the Tongass National Forest during a time of vast political, cultural and environmental ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration ...

The timber industry today accounts for only about one percent of Southeast Alaska’s jobs. The Wilderness Society cites analyses that suggest logging of roadless areas in the Tongass is not in the ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — 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 ...