"They're kind of ignoring all the jobs that are tied to what exists already." Trees stand in the Takatz Bay area of Baranof Island, Tongass National Forest, Alaska, July 12, 2019. LightRocket via ...

Other trees were bigger and more accessible than ... Tourism accounted for 18 percent of southeast Alaska’s jobs in 2019, according to the business group Southeast Conference, while the seafood ...

Trees are renewable ... groups responsible for taking the timber industry down to 4% of Southeast Alaska jobs. Do they really want to kill the rest of industry, the Alaska families that depend ...

“Executive orders themselves do not supply any trees to the mills,” he said ... s actions could create “great paying jobs” in Southeast Alaska. Critics, though, have expressed concerns ...

KETCHIKAN, Alaska — It is the emerald forest of myth: a land of brooding trees and fog-swathed fiords ... Five hundred workers will lose their jobs in March, maybe twice that number if the ...

making it a place of intense interest to state and local leaders who say it should be mined to create jobs and bolster Alaska’s economy. Image Cedar, hemlock and Sitka spruce trees in the forest ...

“The next day we found more and more as we headed east, until we discovered an Arctic savanna of white spruce trees,” recalls Dial, an ecologist at Alaska Pacific University. “Sounds funny ...