Fire is a hot topic these days, particularly when it comes to the boreal forest, the vast expanse of trees that stretches across Alaska, Canada and other cold northern regions. Large fires have been ...

The Biden administration has restored protections for Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, sometimes called, “America’s Amazon.” The new protections, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Thursday that it is ending large-scale, old-growth timber sales in the country's largest national forest — the Tongass National Forest in Alaska — and ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The Trump administration has proposed reopening the Tongass National Forest to road-building, setting the stage for more logging, mining and development in the heart of North ...

The Tongass National Forest is home to a variety of wildlife, including bald eagles, salmon, brown bears and wolves. Wolfgang Kaehler / LightRocket via Getty Images Road construction and timber ...

The Tongass National Forest in Alaska, the crown jewel of our national forest system, is facing an unprecedented threat. At the end of last year, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, introduced two ...

The Trump administration has announced plans for a timber sale that would destroy more than 5,100 acres of old-growth habitat in the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska. At 16.7 million acres, ...

Recent long-term studies revealed a three-quarters reduction of insects in parts of Germany and an 80% decline in pollinating flies at a field site in Greenland. What’s going on with numbers of Alaska ...

One of Alaska’s most beloved tourism destinations—the old-growth, wildlife-rich Tongass National Forest—edged one step closer to losing protections last week. On Friday, the U.S. Forest Service ...

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has issued a final amendment to the Tongass National Forest management plan that aims to phase out cutting of old-growth timber and encourage only cutting of "new ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — The U.S. Forest Service is proposing to exempt the country’s largest national forest from a ban on timber harvests and road building in roadless areas, a move conservation groups ...

The Trump administration Tuesday proposed allowing logging on more than half of Alaska’s 16.7 million-acre Tongass National Forest, the largest intact temperate rainforest in North America. President ...