Articles & Essays
Fire in the hole: the Indigenous crews blasting the Alaskan rainforest to save it
After a historic land buyback by the US Forest Service, Tlingit crew members are demolishing culverts to restore streams, salmon runs and cultural history deep in the Tongass national forest. Photograph: blickwinkel/Alamy
Living in the Alaska rainforest with 1,000 bears: ‘Not the easiest place to be homeless’
As housing prices increase in the picturesque town of Sitka, those already living on the edge are pushed off further into the wilderness.
It Goes Up Like Tinder: Unprecedented Blazes Envelop Alaska
Alaska has seen more than 500 forest fires since the beginning of April, which have forced the evacuation of mining camps, villages and remote cabins.
We need the Tongass now more than ever
President Trump’s decision to direct his agriculture secretary to explore opening America’s largest national forest to logging comes as no surprise, considering that Friedrich Trump, the president’s grandfather, made his original fortune amid the Alaska gold rush.
We Need Salmon In Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, and They Need Our Protection
It’s winter king salmon season now in Sitka, trollers prowling the fishing boundary as chinook fatten up on needlefish, herring and krill, in preparation for their spring journeys home to their native streams.
Trees Older Than America: a Primeval Alaskan Forest Is At Risk in the Trump Era
Tongass is the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, with trees more than 1,000 years old. But a pro-logging effort could uproot them.