Like to Siberia, which has larch forests that are crucial to carbon cycling but less charted than even Alaska’s remote woods. "There are a lot of stories going on in this landscape,” says Cook.

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 ...

The Tongass National Forest in Alaska. Even when the top and branches are lopped off, a tree this size would yield at least 6,000 board feet of lumber, said industry consultant Catherine Mater ...

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 ...

A forest grows over the crevasses of Alaska’s Bering Glacier. (Martin Truffer) For all the descriptive Alaska place names out there — the Grand Canyon, the Wall of China and the three Death ...

(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.

The area was among the parcels swapped from U.S. Forest Service to Alaska Mental Health Trust ownership under a federal law passed in 2017. Photos by Eric Stone.

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 ...

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 ...