Ride a jet ski through a re-creation of an Alaska mega-tsunami with the help of science

The world’s second-tallest tsunami wave on record tore through the remote Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska last August, leaving ...
National Fisherman

Kodiak fisherman to plead guilty in yellow cedar theft case

A commercial fisherman from Kodiak has agreed to plead guilty after federal prosecutors said he illegally cut and transported ...
Alaska Beacon

Kodiak fisherman will plead guilty to stealing trees from Alaska’s Tongass National Forest

Yellow cedar is highly valued for its unique, rot-resistant chemistry, but the theft is an unusual incident for Alaska.
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

USDA Forest Service Moves to Open 1,600+ Acres of Alaska’s Tongass to Logging

The fight for the largest intact temperate forest in the United States continues with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's ...
WESA

Beneath Alaskan Wildfires, A Hidden Threat: Long-Frozen Carbon's Thaw

The Fish Creek Fire in Interior Alaska isn't much to look at. It's about 7,500 acres in size, sitting about an hour south of Fairbanks near the twisty Tanana River. The main fire front — the ...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

Rocks, roads and wilderness maintenance: 'Ghosts of Distant Trees' shifts the framing of mythical Alaska

‘I’ve tried and failed to be a cheerleader for the pure abstraction of wilderness,” Erica Watson writes in “Ghosts of Distant Trees,” her debut essay collection, “but I always find myself drawn back ...
The Spokesman-Review

Are mushrooms the future of insulation?

Just under the forest floor, a vast fungal network known as mycelium builds, communicates and occasionally produces the fruiting bodies we call mushrooms. Now scientists are using this fungus to ...