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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DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska - In the first few days after 1989&#39;s Exxon Valdez disaster, fishermen were forced to fell trees and drop them across favored spawning streams to halt the spread of oil.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - A powerful U.S. senator is set to introduce legislation next week to pay American lumber companies the more than &#36;3 billion in softwood lumber duties the Americans have collected, The Canadian Press has learned.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - An Alaskan wildfire ignited by an errant spark from a power tool has spread to 50,000 acres and burned at least 70 structures in a popular recreation area, officials said on Saturday.
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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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By Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 27--SOLDOTNA -- A subcommittee of Kenai Peninsula fishing interests  could not reach consensus on fishing methods for a subsistence fishery on the  Kenai and Kasilof rivers.
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The U.S. Interior Department on Friday gave final approval to a plan by ConocoPhillips and partner Anadarko Petroleum Corp. to develop five tracts around the oil-rich Alpine field on Alaska's North Slope.
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Officials shifted their focus from rescue work to cleanup and protection of marine habitat on Friday at the site off an Alaskan island where a cargo ship split apart two
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By Michael Milstein, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Jun. 13--The Bush administration Tuesday moved to drop safeguards from  1.6 million acres of public forest seen as critical habitat for the northern  spotted owl, making it easier for federal agencies to proceed with logging  there.
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By TANIA SOUSSAN Journal Staff Writer  The Forest Service has changed the way it updates the management plans for each of its national forests, exempting itself from a major environmental law -- and the switch has some Democratic lawmakers and environmentalists angry.
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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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In a win for environmentalists, the   U.S. Interior Department says it is willing to withdraw   sensitive wetlands from a large area in Alaska's western Arctic   region that it wanted to open next week to oil and natural gas   drilling.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Gov. Sarah Palin said on Tuesday that Alaska has officially started soliciting bids for plans to build a North Slope natural gas pipeline, a mega-project that state officials have dreamed about for decades.
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By Brandon Loomis  Bloomis@adn.Com, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun.
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OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. 13  /PRNewswire/ -- Washington's Forest Practices Board (Board) will examine results of a draft compliance report for the first time, at their meeting tomorrow.  The draft report will show how well fish and clean water regulations are being implemented on the ground.
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Supporters see federal move granting greater flexibility. Critics predict more logging.
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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.