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‘A period of change’ at the Forest Service: A conversation with Alaska’s acting regional forester

Jerry Ingersoll talks about the impending consolidation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Tongass National Forest ...
Alaska Public Media

As Alaska's boreal forest warms, land managers face tough questions about how, or whether, to respond

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 ...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

Division of Forestry seeks comments on Tanana Valley management plan

Interior Alaskans who recreate, hunt, forage or harvest in the Tanana Valley State Forest have until Dec. 20 to comment on a proposed management plan revision. The Alaska Division of Forestry and Fire ...
Alaska Public Media

In new challenges to Alaska forest’s ‘Roadless Rule,’ pro-logging arguments have disappeared

Sun shines through the canopy in the Tongass National Forest. (Photo by Brian Logan/U.S. Forest Service) The state of Alaska, a coalition of business groups and a pair of electric-power organizations ...
Reuters

Alaska's Tongass forest sparks battle over logging

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Environmental advocates readied for battle in Congress this week over what they maintain is an erosion of protections for the biggest, oldest trees in Alaska's Tongass National ...