Tongass National Forest

Despite record-breaking storms, rumors flew around Juneau this week that Donald Trump Jr. was in town for a hunting trip planned earlier this year.

One watchdog group believes that two dozen volunteers were sent from the Tongass National Forest to the Black Hills in order to help out with a controversial Trump plan to bring fireworks to Mount Rushmore for the Fourth of July.

The U.S. Court of Appeals is ordering the Forest Service to revisit its decision to offer four timber sales on the Tongass National Forest.

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An anthropologist has found what she believes are stone tools in a street excavation in downtown Sitka.

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Two resource development groups have filed to join a lawsuit that would exclude Alaska national forests from the roadless rule.

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An Assistant State Attorney General says it’s unclear if exemptions to the federal government’s Roadless Rule actually allow road building in protected areas.

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