Tongass trees featured at state, national capitols for holidays
The 2024 Together Tree is displayed on the patio of the Alaska Governor’s House, Dec. 10, 2024. The tree was harvested and delivered by the Hoonah Ranger District of the Tongass National Forest, resuming a project meant to highlight the important relationships among federal, state, tribal and…
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An innovative approach to fire prevention and community resilience in Alaska
A spruce stand in the Denali Borough impacted by spruce beetle activity. The in-progress Community Wildfire Protection Plan, supported by pass-through Forest Service funding, aims to address the widespread beetle kill in the region as a way to reduce the threat of wildfire risk. (USDA Forest…
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Seeing, listening, collaborating: What it takes to revise Alaska forest plan
Deputy Forest Supervisor Barb Miranda, Tongass National Forest, is overseeing the revision of the Tongass Forest Plan. (Photo courtesy Bethany Goodrich, Sustainable Southeast Partnership)
ALASKA—What has changed in southeast Alaska and Tongass National Forest over more than 25 years? That is the driving…
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Alaska Region honored to be part of Faces of Alaska
The Faces of Alaska installation is placed in the Heritage Square of the Sealaska Heritage Arts Campus, Juneau, Alaska. This mask by master artist Jack Hudson represents Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian peoples of Southeast Alaska. (USDA Forest Service photo by Melissa Kulack)
ALASKA—The Alaska…
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Alaska wood innovations program generates local energy
A sawmill operation at Tok Wood Fuels (part of Young Timber Inc.) received a Forest Service Wood Innovations Program grant. The funding will help improve the efficiency of converting waste wood and chips into compressed wood fire logs. Photo courtesy of Patricia Young, Young Timber.
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Deputy Chief French testimony: Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act
WASHINGTON, DC—Tuesday, Dec. 5, Deputy Chief Chris French, National Forest System, testified before the House Natural Resources-Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee regarding the Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act (HR 4748).