Yellow cedar is a commercially valuable tree species for the timber industry. It grows from California all the way to Southeast Alaska, but there are fewer living trees growing across the range ...

The story of the wolves, the island and the ancient forest began long before there were struggling sawmills and endangered species. But that lost world has a name now: the Tongass National Forest, in ...

Up until now, locally milled lumber in Alaska couldn’t be used in residential building projects. That wasn’t because of quality, but because building codes typically require a grade stamp from a ...

The Tongass Rainforest isn’t what you’d picture as a candidate for farm country. The terrain is rugged, the soil unstable, and it rains over 100 inches a year. The vast majority of Sitkans get their ...

At the heart of the debate in southeast Alaska is the so-called Tongass transition. The Forest Service has cast the plan as an economic and environmental bridge, providing just enough old-growth ...

BETHEL, Alaska (AP) — A Bethel-area village is starting a commercial lumber business along the Kuskokwim River. Workers from the Native village of Napaimute moved a sawmill 40 miles downriver from ...

News-Miner opinion: The Alaska Senate Finance Committee is considering Senate Bill 87 to determine if locally produced sawmill lumber can make the grade. Alaska Senate Bill 87 went to the Senate ...

Hoonah police say the cause of a series of explosions that destroyed a sawmill remains under investigation. The Icy Strait Lumber Mill on Long Island was destroyed earlier this month after a fire that ...

The price of lumber has more than doubled over the past year, and economists warn that things might stay this way for a while. That's why people like Hans Dow are getting crafty. "I was like, well, I ...