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 ...

In reaction to the pandemic’s disruption of the global timber market, the U.S. Forest Service is allowing extensions on existing timber sale contracts with sawmills and timber operators. Typically, ...

A recently completed economic study of timber demand projections for the next two decades in southeast Alaska explains four alternatives describing how the forest products industry could develop. The ...

The Forest Service awarded a contract this last week to log two-thirds of a controversial Southeast Alaska timber sale. Officials say it’s the first of several contracts for what’s called the Big ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service has rescheduled a public meeting about planned timber sales in southeast Alaska. Alaska’s Energy Desk reports the federal agency has scheduled the meeting ...

The Republican senator wants more funding for new programs after the administration reinstated limits on timber harvesting in 2021. The Biden administration’s plan to help southeastern Alaska adjust ...

The following editorial first appeared in the Ketchikan Daily News: Alaska needs its industry — big and small. One of its oldest is the timber industry, and, while it isn’t as big as it used to be, it ...

KAKE, Alaska — To the 569 residents of this island community in the Tongass National Forest, picking blueberries may offer more promise in the long run than harvesting trees. KAKE, Alaska — To the 569 ...

What happens to a town when a key industry collapses? Sometimes it dies. But sometimes it finds a way to reinvent itself. Case in point: Ketchikan, Alaska, where the demise of the timber industry has ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A federal judge in Alaska has halted a timber sale planned within the country’s largest national forest while the merits of the case are argued. In a written order, U.S. District ...

JUNEAU — A federal judge has blocked what would have been the largest timber sale in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest in decades. Wednesday’s ruling ends the U.S. Forest Service’s plan to open 37.5 ...