Opinions Opinion: Rural Alaska needs jobs — and Southeast timber is a sustainable, renewable industry By Sarah Dahlstrom-Lehnert Published: April 5, 2025 ...

A family-owned timber firm that operates the last significant sawmill in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest has won a momentous U.S. Forest Service contract: the Big Thorne Project, which will ...

NATIONAL NEWS PHOTO ESSAY: In rural Alaska, collecting driftwood saves time, money and brings jobs Jun 30, 2025, 6:02 AM ...

I am not against logging. And call me hopelessly naïve but I am for living-wage jobs in Southeast and all of Alaska (don’t worry, this is not the beginning of my gubernatorial bid). I support ...

The industry supports fewer than 300 jobs in the region, compared with the 3,500 workers it employed two decades ago. While the industry has plummeted, others, including tourism and fishing, have ...

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell, a Republican, was furious at “irresponsible lawsuits by environmental groups to stop all logging,” and had the state file motions in federal court challenging them, saying, ...

Last year, the timber industry in Alaska employed just over 300 people. Nichols supplies paychecks for 50 of them. He said those jobs are important. Still, it’s not always easy doing business.

For two decades the rule has protected old-growth forests and critical wildlife habitat in Alaska and across the country. Protecting these trees, which are champions at absorbing carbon, has helped ...

Jake Pogrebinsky smokes a cigarette while diving his boat on the Yukon River looking for logs to collect, Tuesday, May 20, 2025, in Galena, Alaska. (AP Photo/John Locher) ...