[dropcap]A[/dropcap] 25-year-old Ketchikan woman took Ketchikan-based Alaska State Troopers on a high-speed car chase early Thursday morning along the South Tongass Highway, troopers report. Troopers attempted to carry out a traffic stop on a green 1998 GMC Jimmy at mile tow of the southeast highway at just after midnight, but the driver, identified as Rhiana Sanford, […]
JUNEAU, AK – The U.S. Forest Service released a Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and Draft Record of Decision (ROD) for its proposed Prince of Wales timber sale project, advancing plans for a record-breaking old-growth and young-growth logging project on Prince of Wales Island and the smaller neighboring islands in Southeast Alaska. The logging will […]
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 […]