Imagine a forest so vast and wild that its boundaries stretch farther than the eye can see, where ancient trees tower like ...

A lawsuit filed in federal court seeks to compel U.S. agencies to make old-growth timber from the Tongass National Forest available for sale at volumes required by a 1990 act ...

Removing forest protections will have staggering consequences for their culture and food security. The Tongass is a champion at absorbing greenhouse gas emissions. Cherished as a crown jewel of the ...

The coalition, represented by Earthjustice and the Natural Resources Defense Council, is intervening to prevent industrial logging and damaging roadbuilding on more than 9 million mostly undeveloped ...

Trees from the Tongass provide the music of the world, writes Sarah Dahlstrom-Lehnert in a commentary for the Alaska Beacon.

Viking harvests 0.0016% of the Tongass National Forest per year. Trees are renewable. They are a crop that needs to be harvested before they rot and die. At Viking, we help create long-life wood ...

During the 1950s, the U.S. government sought to boost southeast Alaska's economy through a program of intense logging within the Tongass National Forest. Wood from large timber operations supplied ...

the Tongass National Forest and the Avi Kwa Ame National Monument, among others. The public lands currently under threat include over 6.7 million acres of wildlife habitat, supporting 32 ...

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