It’s been a decade since the federal government last updated the management plan for the region, which covers roughly 80 per cent of the Alaska panhandle. Now, the U.S. Forest Service has launched ...

Northern ecosystems are seeing some of the planet's most sweeping changes from climate warming. For some animals and plants, that has posed a threat to their very existence and, for humans, a couple ...

The fight for the largest intact temperate forest in the United States continues with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service announcing on Friday, April 24, that it will open 1,655 acres ...

Rural communities bordering the Tongass National Forest harvest more than 4.5 million pounds of wild food per year, including 100 different species that our public lands help support. Just how much ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A couple from Alaska skated through a "drowned forest" and it looked ...

Here’s how to get the most out of wildlife watching on an Alaska cruise, according to one of Carnival Cruise Line’s onboard ...

Two weeks after the Trump administration announced a U.S. Forest Service “restructuring” that would close regional offices and most of the agency’s research facilities, impacts to Alaska – home to the ...

Clearcuts on land owned by a State of Alaska corporation, adjacent to the Tongass National Forest. - Photo credit: David Herasimtschuk for Earthjustice The fight for the largest intact temperate ...