U.S. Forest Service officials are taking the next step toward assessing where to build new cabins in Southeast and Southcentral Alaska. Last month, the Forest Service announced it received roughly ...

Overnighting in Alaska’s wilderness is about to get easier. The Alaska Cabins Project, a joint initiative from the Forest Service and the National Forest Foundation, will bring 25 new, easily ...

Alaska, often referred to as ... wetlands, and boreal forests. Jennifer Watts, Arctic program director at Woodwell Climate, ... These maps are not just scientific tools; they are a call to action.

A new machine-learning system developed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks can automatically produce detailed maps from satellite data to show locations of likely beetle-killed spruce trees in ...

(Map courtesy of USFS) Timber sales in Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest often spark conflict between environmental groups, the timber industry, and the U.S. Forest Service.

An interactive map from the Wilderness Society highlights the tracts of US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management lands that could go up for sale if the Senate's version of the budget bill ...

Warming severity "hotspots" in Arctic-boreal region between 1997-2020. Christina Shintani / Woodwell Climate Research Center Map of areas that experienced vegetation climate stress in the Arctic ...

A designated wilderness area in Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, the largest U.S. national forest, is now a little bit bigger, thanks to a land purchase and transfer arranged by two ...

The six fires resulted in a loss of nearly 99,000 acres of evergreen forest from 2000 to 2014 among nearly 155,000 acres of fire-influenced forests with varying degrees of burn severity.