The case put the Trump administration, which aims to boost logging, in the unusual position of arguing against expanded harvests. The Forest Service isn’t legally obligated to meet timber harvesting ...

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration ruled Friday that it will not provide wilderness protection to millions of acres of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. The decision by the U.S. Forest Service ...

The Trump administration is turning to rarely used laws to circumvent environmental restrictions and expand logging in ...

The Trump administration lifted logging protections on the majority of the nearly 17 million-acre Tongass National Forest in Alaska, the latest in a series of steps in the final weeks of the president ...

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 ...

From Southeast logging camps to North Slope rigs, the lesson is the same: When policy drives investment away, jobs and ...

Less than two weeks after signing an executive order to have the U.S. join the One Trillion Trees Initiative, President Donald Trump stripped nearly 20-year-old protections from Alaska's Tongass ...

Sun shines through the canopy in the Tongass National Forest. (Photo by Brian Logan/U.S. Forest Service) The state of Alaska, a coalition of business groups and a pair of electric-power organizations ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Tourists visiting the Mendenhall Glacier in the Tongass National Forest are reflected in a pool of water as they make their ...

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 ...

(CN) — The Biden administration has proposed repealing a Trump-era exemption to the Alaska Roadless Rule for the Tongass National Forest, the largest national forest in the United States and home to a ...

JUNEAU, Alaska― A federal judge today rejected the Trump administration’s enormous commercial timber harvest and road-building plan for Prince of Wales Island in the Tongass National Forest of ...