The decline of logging in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest is reverberating all the way to Astoria, Queens, where Steinway & Sons builds pianos in one of New York City’s oldest operating factories.

That doesn’t make sense.” Alaska Wanted the Rule Removed The Roadless Rule was originally established in the final days of Bill Clinton’s presidency. It banned logging and road construction on roughly ...

Despite opposition from environmental and indigenous groups, the Trump administration took a major step on Friday toward exempting the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska from a 2001 rule ...

A court ruled that a 2016 management plan doesn't legally bind the Forest Service to hold log sales in Alaska's Tongass National Forest.Salwan Georges/The Washington Post/Getty Images A federal court ...

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 ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — A federal agency said Wednesday it is reinstating restrictions on road-building and logging on the country's largest national forest in southeast Alaska, the latest move in a ...

The effort to open the Alaskan wilderness area, the nation’s largest national forest, has been in the works for about two years. By Coral Davenport WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. Updated July 15, 2021—The Biden administration today restored protections for Alaska’s Tongass National Forest that the Trump ...

I’ve been in Washington, D.C., for the last three months doing weekly actions called Fire Drill Fridays — because what 97% of active climate scientists are saying scares me, and I feel the need to do ...

The Trump administration has cleared the way to open the country's largest national forest to more development and logging. In a revised environmental impact study made public on Friday, 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 ...