Alaska forestry crews are completing winter wildfire fuel mitigation projects statewide, including hand thinning, pile ...

The agency plans to hold meetings in 18 Southeast communities to collect public input from late March through early May.

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 ...

The case put the Trump administration, which aims to boost logging, in the unusual position of arguing against expanded harvests. The Forest Service isn’t legally obligated to meet timber harvesting ...

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 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree will once again come from Alaska this year, specifically from the Tongass National Forest in Southeast. The tree from the Tongass rainforest, known for old-growth trees ...

A final review of the draft Tanana Valley State Forest Management Plan is now available for public feedback, according to a news release from the Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection (DOF).

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 ...

The Trump administration’s goal of expanding timber production is about to see one of its biggest tests yet in Alaska. The Forest Service has launched a comprehensive revision of the land management ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Forest Service ranger with the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center acts as bear crossing guard as visitors look on. (Photo by Cam ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters Life!) - An unfinished Indian canoe, apparently abandoned 500 years ago, has been discovered in a remote section of an Alaska rain forest, according to officials. The canoe, ...