New Plan for Logging in Alaska Forest
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More than three million acres in Alaska would be open to logging under a federal plan that supporters believe will revive the stateâs struggling timber industry.
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Aerial hunters have claimed the first wolf kills of the season as Alaska officials renew predator-control efforts to boost moose and caribou populations.
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By Craig Medred, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 18--Big Wild Life (if you can afford it)   That ought to be the subtext for the new marketing campaign for Anchorage.   Bear-viewing at Wolverine Creek. Flightseeing. King salmon fishing at what appears to be Clear Creek.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following is a statement from Mike Daulton, the director of conservation policy, National Audubon Society:   "The court's preliminary decision gives a reprieve to some of the most sensitive habitat in Alaska.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on  Thursday approved a plan to allow oil drilling in Alaska&#039;s  Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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The Bush administration issued broad new rules Wednesday overhauling the guidelines for managing the nation&#39;s 155 national forests and making it easier for regional
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In the next 100 years, Alaska will experience a massive loss of its historic tundra, as global warming allows these vast regions of cold, dry, lands to support forests and other vegetation that will dramatically alter native ecosystems.
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GRANTS PASS, Ore. - After a review prompted by a timber industry lawsuit, the federal government announced Thursday that the northern spotted owl, the icon of logging wars in the Northwest, will remain on the threatened species list.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - A powerful U.S. senator is set to introduce legislation next week to pay American lumber companies the more than &#36;3 billion in softwood lumber duties the Americans have collected, The Canadian Press has learned.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Until now, the Alaskan oil industry and polar bears have coexisted peacefully, but proposals by the U.S. government to list polar bears as endangered by global warming have cast a shadow on oil development on Alaska's North Slope.
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The US offers rights for oil and gas in an area of north-western Alaska renowned for its wildlife.
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Alaska's Aleutian Island chain, where a broken cargo ship has been leaking fuel oil for five days, needs the type of environmental protections that are given to better-known areas, a marine wildlife activist said on Monday.
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Supporters see federal move granting greater flexibility. Critics predict more logging.
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By The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Mar. 9--The Payette National Forest is inviting public comment on a proposal that would allow a commercial mushroom harvest in some areas that burned last summer, primarily in the South Fork Salmon River drainage and locations near Stibnite.
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Description: A freighter carrying more than 400,000 gallons of fuel oil breaks up near a national wildlife refuge on the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
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By Elizabeth Bluemink, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 17--The state fisheries board wants Gov. Sarah Palin to add another item to her growing list of scratched-out Murkowski actions.
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Spreading plantations are blamed for a threat to wildlife.