Timber

Recruiters say economic conditions are making it hard for them to recruit and retain employees who come from out of state.

Even if the bills become law by the end of the 33rd Legislature in 2024, it’s likely to take several years before the state realizes any income.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the Tongass is key to conserving biodiversity and addressing the climate crisis, adding that the decision listened to the requests of Alaska Native tribes.

Yakutat elder Victoria Demmert says her ancestors harvested salmon at Humpback Creek for hundreds of years.

The tree that crashed through a Juneau neighborhood this fall was older than the United States. Local naturalists say its rings tell us a lot about the life it lived.

The organizer’s husband won a brand new chainsaw.

The sale’s boundaries push up against homes and would leave the surrounding hillside clear-cut.

The U.S. Forest Service is proposing the harvest of up to nine square miles of young growth timber on Prince of Wales Island. It’s part of a years-long transition away from old growth logging in the Tongass National Forest — and some in the timber industry worry they’ll be left behind. One of the project’s…

About half of the funding will be managed by tribal and Indigenous organizations, for purposes that include arts and cultural support, enhancement of food security and support for cultural use of forest products.

The goal is to mimic natural processes to bring back topsoil and improve fish habitats.