"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At least 30 federal workers with the U.S. Forest Service in Alaska have been terminated immediately, as of Thursday, according to the National Federation of Federal Employees union. “We got word ...

Feb. 17—Days after federal job cuts began to hit Alaska, the full extent of the layoffs was not yet known, even as those who lost their jobs began to contend with impacts on them and their ...