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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 ...
Juneau Empire

Conservation groups’ purchase preserves additional land in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest

A designated wilderness area in Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, the largest U.S. national forest, is now a little bit bigger, thanks to a land purchase and transfer arranged by two ...
WGN Radio

US to end large, old-growth timber sales in Alaska forest

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...
Alaska Dispatch News

While other populations fluctuate, insects of Alaska’s boreal forest are humming along

Recent long-term studies revealed a three-quarters reduction of insects in parts of Germany and an 80% decline in pollinating flies at a field site in Greenland. What’s going on with numbers of Alaska ...
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 ...
Alaska Public Media

U.S. Capitol Christmas tree will come from Alaska's Tongass National Forest

An anchored commercial fishing troller enjoys some serenity in Roosevelt Harbor on Zarembo Island. September 9, 2019. Tongass National Forest. (Photo by Eric Castro) Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, ...