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 ...
PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND, Alaska — Thousands of acres in southeast Alaska are ready for a second wave of logging, but is the timber industry ready to cut them? That’s the big question as the Forest ...
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Threads of the Tongass: Opinions split on whether there is a market for mass logging in Southeast
In the past, the federal government subsidized the Southeast Alaska timber industry. Joel Jackson, president of the Organized Village of Kake, said that would have to happen again for timber to become ...
Two years ago, Sealaska Corp. gave the Trump administration a prescription for managing the region’s millions of acres of forest. Open more areas to logging, the Alaska Native corporation urged, ...
The timber industry today accounts for only about one percent of Southeast Alaska’s jobs. The Wilderness Society cites analyses that suggest logging of roadless areas in the Tongass is not in the ...
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