After joining the Biden administration's push for younger-growth harvests, an Alaska timber association is asking the Forest ...

“Old-growth forests play a vital role in helping to slow climate change. The Tongass alone stores hundreds of millions of metric tons of CO2 and sequesters millions more annually. The complete removal ...

Larger expanses of old growth survive in Alaska, such as within the Tongass National Forest. There’s wide consensus on the importance of preserving them — both symbolically as marvels of ...

Commentary author Hunter H. McIntosh writes that despite its immense ecological and economic value, the Tongass remains under ...

President Trump issued two new executive orders on March 1 to expand logging in national forests. They could affect Tongass ...

Old growth forest or other undisturbed natural areas ... “The caves on the Tongass can be dangerous and vertical,” she wrote. “Usually cavers do not like to use bolts, but occasionally ...

Joel Jackson, president, Organized Village of Kake “The Roadless Rule has helped protect the Tongass National Forest from harmful logging and road building. Without old-growth timber, we lose an ...

Reversing the Roadless Rule on the Tongass risks dragging us back to the destructive days of clearcut logging, and it’s simply not what most Alaskans want right now.