Timber

While budworms have been known to target hemlock trees, they seem to be moving on to spruce this year.

Burls may be important to the health of trees, but they’re also financially valuable, sometimes fetching thousands of dollars for a slab.

To help Alaskans sort through dozens of candidates, Alaska Public Media is asking each where they stand on the issues.

Alaska’s wildland firefighters have been completing their annual training and, with help from a state grant, strategically cutting and removing trees, many of them killed by spruce beetles.

It’s one of the first sales to focus on second growth logging, following a federal plan to stop cutting down old growth trees.

Southeast Alaska is getting special attention in part because the Biden administration wants to reinstitute the Roadless Rule in the Tongass and end large-scale, old-growth logging.