Alaska agrees to 20-year federal partnership to manage and harvest Tongass forest
The U.S. Forest Service and the State of Alaska have signed a groundbreaking 20-year shared stewardship agreement aimed at expanding forest management and strengthening Alaska’s timber
Alaska’s top resource extraction support group backs Sullivan over Peltola
In his bid to defeat challenger Mary Peltola, U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan picked up the endorsement of one of Alaska’s top groups working to support the state’s resource extraction
OPINION: Alaska’s energy future is within reach – if we don’t regulate it away
Alaska should not be a pawn in someone else’s energy strategy. We will not allow outsider activists to turn us into a postcard or wildlife park. We are a resource state with the capacity to supply affordable gas to America for generations. The progress
Survey asks if Fairbanks borough should expand regs, mandates and enforcement powers
Notably, the survey is heavily weighted towards left-leaning initiatives when it comes to land-use regulations, government enforcement powers, building mandates and environmentalist goals. It contains no questions about reducing taxes, easing regulations or
Climate activists seize on youth lawsuit to advance war on Alaska fossil fuels
Radical climate alarmists aim to flood an Alaska Supreme Court hearing on March 4 to generate attention surrounding another youth-led lawsuit aimed at derailing the Alaska Liquified Natural Gas
HANDS OFF: Outside eco-terrorists undermine Alaska’s future
Outside activists deploy legal teams, media campaigns and coordinated public comment drives to oppose any Alaska road as a threat, any mine as exploitation, any drilling project as
SHELLEY HUGHES: The AIP has died but Alaskans must keep fighting for our birthright
The Alaskan Independence Party may have dissolved but the ideas it embodied did not. They will live on in many of us who believe that Alaska has not been well treated since our creation as
Slow Bleed: Climate extremists drive away families and hollow out Alaska
Alaska's outmigration rate remains among the highest in the nation, and it is not the result of bad luck, but the predictable outcome of a sustained, Outside-funded campaign by environmental extremists who turn every development opportunity into a political
OPINION: Alaska mustn’t fall victim to eco-cults that have vandalized Germany’s energy
Alaska winters are predictably long and harsh, and we cannot afford to gamble our energy security on outside money-driven climate cults and eco-terrorists who live thousands of miles away. Alaskans must control our energy
OPINION: Failure to harvest Alaska timber degrades both forest and economy
Walking away from our forests or closing more mills is the worst possible outcome for communities and the environment. Managing them responsibly through sound policy and collaboration is not radical. It is practical, balanced, long overdue and I look forward
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