New Plan for Logging in Alaska Forest
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More than three million acres in Alaska would be open to logging under a federal plan that supporters believe will revive the stateâs struggling timber industry.
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Alaska&#39;s Aleutian Island chain, where a broken cargo ship has been leaking fuel oil for five days, needs the type of environmental protections that are given to better
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The Bush administration proposes cutting 1.5 million acres from Northwest forests considered critical to the survival of the northern spotted owl.
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Democrats and environmental groups on Monday expressed hope that changes in the Bush administration Cabinet could moderate a White House plan to open some 60 million acres of federal forests to logging.
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Supporters see federal move granting greater flexibility. Critics predict more logging.
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By Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 13--Thousands of people in Kodiak and other Alaska communities might lose their right to subsistence hunting and fishing under federal law.   If that happens, many say, they'll lose a way of life.
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The Bush administration issued broad new rules Wednesday overhauling the guidelines for managing the nation&#39;s 155 national forests and making it easier for regional
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By JEFF BARNARD  GRANTS PASS, Ore. - The Bush administration Tuesday proposed cutting 1.5 million acres from Northwest forests considered critical to the survival of the northern spotted owl, reopening the 1990s battle between timber production and wildlife habitat on public lands.
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Managers of the nation's 155 national forests will have more discretion to approve logging and other commercial projects without lengthy environmental reviews under a new Bush administration initiative, The Associated Press has learned.
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JUNEAU, Alaska - A family is mourning the loss of a beloved apple tree but they believe they know who the culprit was: a hungry brown bear. "There is a bear out there that will rip a tree down," Lavena Sargent said Tuesday morning, a day after returning from a caribou hunting trip...
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By Beth Daley, The Boston Globe  Sep. 22--State officials said yesterday they are setting aside about  100,000 acres of state forest to begin recreating a landscape most residents  have never seen: old growth forests.
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Bob Briggsâ wifeâs family has owned about 1,000 acres of redwood forest off Waddell Creek since 1913. He doesnât clearcut, and logs about once a decade.
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A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday pushed for new rules to stop American companies from buying illegally logged timber plundered from fragile forests around the world.
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An Oregon timber company has appealed the reinstatement of protections on 58.5 million acres of roadless areas in national forests, saying it should be able to continue logging trees burned in a 2002 wildfire in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - BP Plc  has submitted a revised plan for preventing and responding to spills at the Prudhoe Bay oil field following pipeline corrosion problems and oil spills earlier this year, a state official said on Monday.
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By S.J. Komarnitsky, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Mar. 9--WASILLA -- A proposed permit to allow exploratory coal drilling  around the Matanuska Valley community of Chickaloon prompted a deluge of  responses from concerned residents and others.
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While a rapidly changing climate may alter the composition of northern Wisconsin's forests, disturbances such as logging also will play a critical role in how these sylvan ecosystems change over time.