JUNEAU― Local conservation and business interests represented by Earthjustice sued the U.S. Forest Service Wednesday to stop an old-growth timber sale on Kuiu Island in the Tongass National Forest. The lawsuit, filed in federal district court in Alaska, says the Forest Service’s environmental analysis is 11 years old and fails to consider new threats from the proposed […]
Troopers received a notification from Delorme Inreach that a device had been activated in the Peril Strait area at 8:25 am on Sunday morning. The Coast Guard responded to the area and recovered the remains of Sitka man 49-year-old Sean Elliot in Goose Cove. An overturned boat was also recovered after it was found overturned […]
I once wrote about how fire had ravaged more than 10 percent of Interior Alaska during two smoky summers. A wildlife biologist called me out for choosing an inadequate verb. Tom Paragi chooses words that are more positive when he looks at a burned forest. Paragi works with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game […]
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Tuesday criticized the Forest Service and Department of Agriculture for failing to actively manage federal forest lands in Alaska and across the West. Murkowski said the Forest Service’s reluctance to issue timber sales has harmed local communities that depend on jobs in the industry and revenue from timber harvests to pay […]