Most of the harvest will be old-growth trees, which some people worry will be devastating to the forest.
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State seeks input for plan to boost logging in Haines
At local meetings, people have voiced confusion over the process – and about how they were supposed to weigh in on the issue without seeing the current draft.
Lingít elders, Tongass advocates in Juneau gather in favor of keeping Roadless Rule
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced this summer it was moving to rescind the Roadless Rule, a 2001 law that protects large swaths of National Forest land from development.
The Roadless Rule is on the chopping block, and the public has less than a month to comment on it
At the Southeast Tribal Environmental Forum in Juneau this week, tribes and environmental groups discussed strategies to keep the rule in place.
US House Natural Resources Committee members tour Alaska to survey mining, timber resources
Members of the the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee stopped in Juneau Monday to talk about expanding logging and mining in Southeast Alaska.
Losses mount for timber companies in Alaska amid China’s import ban
China’s ban on U.S. log imports has had sweeping effects on companies that harvest logs in Alaska and ship them overseas.