by Web Editor | Aug 27, 2014 | News, News/PR
A coalition of conservation groups filed suit Friday challenging the U.S. Forest Service decision to approve the Big Thorne timber sale on Prince of Wales Island. The conservation groups, Alaska Wilderness League, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club and...
by Web Editor | Mar 28, 2014 | News, News/PR
A federal appeals court sided with the state of Alaska on Wednesday in a ruling that could open a large portion of the Tongass National Forest to road building and logging. In a split decision, a panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a ruling by a...
by Web Editor | Oct 30, 2013 | News, News/PR
Can the Alaska logging industry survive while only logging second-growth forests? An Oregon research group says it can. And it could happen sooner than many expect. An organization called the Geos Institute just released a study based on new Forest Service data. It...