by Oliver Stiefel | Mar 15, 2016 | Features, News, Public Lands News
The Alaska Regional Forester has put a major logging project in the Tongass National Forest on hold, in response to administrative objections filed by Crag’s clients. The Saddle Lakes Timber Sale, located near Ketchikan on Revillagigedo Island, called for about...
by Oliver Stiefel | Nov 18, 2015 | News, Public Lands News
Forest Service Backs Down, Cancels Controversial Tongass Old-growth Timber Sale PETERSBURG, Alaska— The U.S. Forest Service has formally withdrawn its March authorization of the Mitkof Island Project — a large, 35-million-board-foot timber sale — through documents...
by Oliver Stiefel | Jun 23, 2015 | Features, Wildlife News
A June 16, 2015 Memorandum issued by the State of Alaska Department of Fish and Game reported a 60% decline in the population of the Alexander Archipelago wolf in the Prince of Wales Island area between 2013 and 2014. The wolf species, endemic to the coastal...
by Courtney Johnson | Sep 29, 2014 | Features, News, Wildlife News
The U.S. District Court in Anchorage issued a decision Friday on the Islands Wolf lawsuit centered in Southeast Alaska. The decision has now, for the second time, stopped four Tongass National Forest logging projects. Crag has represented Greenpeace and Cascadia...
by Courtney Johnson | Jun 6, 2014 | Blog, Features
Many of you may have heard the news last month that OR-7 — Oregon’s wandering wolf — had been spotted hanging out with a female wolf in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest in Southern Oregon. Those reports garnered hope that perhaps the pair...