For those who want to base in a town but want to avoid the crowds and development of Anchorage, the forest's eastern edge is near the town of Cordova, a hidden destination on Alaska's coast.

Commentary author Hunter H. McIntosh writes that despite its immense ecological and economic value, the Tongass remains under ...

Trump’s actions are the latest chapter in a decades-long tug-of-war between conservation and development in Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest — by far the largest of the nation’s ...

A couple from Alaska skated through a "drowned forest" and it looked mezmerizing ... their amazement at the short clip. "Wow! That landscape and that sound—surreal," said @gossia_m3.

JUNEAU, Alaska (Áakʼw Ḵwáan Territory)— A broad coalition of Alaska Native Tribes, commercial fishers, small tourism businesses, conservation groups and other forest advocates are seeking to defend ...

Three men are feared dead after being hit by a massive avalanche while on a backcountry heli-skiing trip in the US state of Alaska ... the Chugach National Forest Avalanche Information Center ...

Over the next several decades, the Forest Service created seven smokejumper bases in the lower 48, and the Bureau of Land Management established two, including the one in Alaska. Today roughly 450 ...

Two Southeast Alaska trail maintenance nonprofits want to hire fired Forest Service staff to make a new trail crew — if they can raise enough money to pay them. Trail Mix Inc. Director Meghan ...

I was a U.S. Forest Service park ranger at Mendenhall ... I have watched the dramatic changes in glacial ice and the surrounding landscape. Like many of you, as tourism increased I stayed away ...