The Trump administration says it'll again seek to harvest more than 4,000 acres of old-growth in the Tongass National Forest.

As a daughter and niece of sawmill owners, I disagree with Kate Glover’s article dated March 12, “Southeast Alaskans want sustainable economies, not extractive industry, within the Tongass National ...

The log storage facility would be located in Haines' Lutak Inlet, pictured above in August 2025. A company under contract for a major timber sale in Haines is trying again to secure a permit to store ...

The log transfer facility and storage site would be a little over four miles outside of town, in Haines' Lutak Inlet, pictured above on March 27,2025. Four years ago, an Oregon-based timber company ...

After joining the Biden administration’s push for younger-growth harvests, an Alaska timber association is asking the Forest Service to do an about-face. The Alaska timber industry is going from ...

Members of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resoures talk with reporters at Juneau International Airport on Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) Ten members of the U.S.

Jackson said timber sales were once offered in Southeast Alaska, including Kake, which is on the northwest coast of Kupreanof Island. “Nobody touched it,” he said. “The reason why they didn’t touch it ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration ...

Like the turn of the seasons, we can regularly count on seeing opinion pieces here, expounding the wisdom of “moving beyond our extractive industries and making a transition to an alternative economy.

Ten members of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources are visiting Southeast and Southcentral Alaska, including addressing the annual conference of the Alaska Oil and Gas Association Ten ...

“Threads of the Tongass” is an ongoing series that explores how lives in Southeast Alaska are interwoven with the Tongass National Forest during a time of vast political, cultural and environmental ...