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President Donald Trump has ordered his administration to increase logging, calling it a matter of critical national importance.
The Roadless Rule does not limit economic activity in Southeast Alaska; it does the opposite. By keeping new roads out of old ...
The state of Alaska, a coalition of business groups and a pair of electric-power organizations have opened a new round in the generation-long fight over environmental protections in Southeast Alaska’s ...
The “Roadless Rule” is an inaccurate name that has led to no shortage of confusion. Here's why hunters should support it, and ...
Tribes are raising alarms as the Trump administration rushes to remove protections for more than 58 million acres of federal forest lands.
While the nation continues to be burdened with huge federal budget deficits, the U.S. Forest Service is still promoting millions of dollars in taxpayer handouts to logging companies for forest ...
Major Alaska resource projects, and the land they could be built on, may be at stake in the presidential election. They include drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and elsewhere in Alaska, ...
(Alaska Beacon) The U.S. Department of Agriculture, parent agency of the U.S. Forest Service, announced Wednesday that it is moving ahead with plans to rescind a rule that has restricted logging and ...
The decision to again lift limits on roadless-area development sets up a rematch over the Tongass National Forest. President Donald Trump’s decision on his first day in office to lift logging ...
Capping more than 10 years of intense controversy over the fate of some of the nation's last remaining old-growth forest, the Bush administration yesterday finalized the opening of 300,000 acres of ...
WASHINGTON (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 National ...