Snow-capped mountains are reflected in the water on May 9, 2022, in the Juneau District of the Tongass National Forest. (Photo by Maya Leschinsky/U.S. Forest Service) Alaska’s Tongass National Forest ...

A federal agency said Wednesday it is reinstating restrictions on road-building and logging on the country's largest national forest in southeast Alaska, the latest move in a long-running fight over ...

What has changed in Southeast Alaska over the last 27 years? This is one of the driving questions for the U.S. Forest Service as they revise the plan that shapes how the agency makes decisions on the ...

A yet-unknown tree from the Tongass National Forest is slated to make a celebrity-worthy journey across the country this fall before being lit up as the 2024 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree, only the ...

Last week, the Biden administration restored protections for the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, reversing a Trump-era initiative that opened up millions of acres to road-building and ...

The Biden administration has restored protections for Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, sometimes called, “America’s Amazon.” The new protections, ...

The administration made official its restoration of roadless-area limits on logging in the Alaska forest. The Biden administration Wednesday took its final step toward restoring roadless-area limits ...

A western black-headed budworm hangs from a silk thread. (Elizabeth Graham) Insect infestations began tearing through Southeast Alaska years ago, leaving behind scores of balding trees and annoyed ...

Spanning 16.7 million acres that stretch across most of southeast Alaska, the Tongass National Forest is the largest national forest in the United States by far and part of the world’s largest ...

The U.S. Forest Service has finalized a rule restoring protections rolled back under the Trump administration for the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, the largest such forest in the U.S. “As our ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Last week, the Biden administration restored protections for the world’s ...