July 16, 2021 — As reported by Juliet Eilperin in The Washington Post, the Biden administration recently announced new protections for the Tongass National Forest in southeastern Alaska, including an end to large-scale old-growth logging and a proposal … More
June 14, 2021 — Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) reintroduced conservation legislation — the Roadless Area Conservation Act (S. 877). The proposed legislation would permanently prevent logging and related activities in designated roadless areas of National Forest land, including … More
October 10, 2020 — By Anna V. Smith — In the early fall of 2018, Marina Anderson sped down the rough road connecting one side of Alaska’s Prince of Wales Island to the other. She had only a few … More
June 8, 2020 — U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason rejected the Trump administration’s plan to harvest timber in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. Gleason ruled that project approval violated the National Environmental Policy Act and the Alaska National Interest … More