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10/16/2026

Friday Fact.

⚓ Worker Wednesday: Timber Workers on the Water! 🌲Southeast Alaska depends heavily on marine transportation. Tugboat ope...
10/14/2026

⚓ Worker Wednesday: Timber Workers on the Water! 🌲

Southeast Alaska depends heavily on marine transportation. Tugboat operators, barge crews, deckhands, and other maritime workers are a critical link in our timber industry, moving logs and lumber through the Inside Passage and connecting Alaska’s mills to customers across the country.

Every link in the supply chain matters.

Working on the water requires skill, teamwork, long hours, and the ability to operate in some challenging weather and sea conditions. These workers help keep Alaska’s timber industry moving and ensure our wood products reach the manufacturers and communities that depend on them.

Today, we’re giving a big THANK YOU to our timber workers on the water! ⚓🪵

Drop a comment to recognize a tugboat operator, barge crew member, or maritime worker who helps keep Southeast Alaska moving!

10/12/2026

Today on National Loggers Day, we recognize the hardworking logging professionals who play a vital role in sustaining the health and productivity of our nation’s forests. Through active forest management work, carried out in partnership with the Forest Service, loggers help reduce hazardous fuels, improve forest health, support local economies, and maintain resilient landscapes for future generations.

Thank you to the loggers who help us care for and manage your national forests.

(Forest Service photo by Patrick Lair)

This is what collaboration in the Tongass looks like. 🌲🚁Over the summer, Viking Lumber, Sealaska, Tlingit & Haida, and t...
10/06/2026

This is what collaboration in the Tongass looks like. 🌲🚁

Over the summer, Viking Lumber, Sealaska, Tlingit & Haida, and the U.S. Forest Service - Tongass National Forest came together to make a culturally important harvest possible on Prince of Wales Island.

Viking had already mobilized a Chinook helicopter for a selective harvest operation to supply music tonewood to piano customers around the world. This was no small endeavor, made possible through Viking Lumber’s three decades of working relationships and experience with Columbia Helicopters. With the logistics and helicopter operation already in place for this federal timber sale, Sealaska reached out to Viking to see if the operation could also be used to collaboratively harvest culturally important cedar trees. One helicopter operation, multiple partners, and a shared goal of getting the right trees to the people who need them.

Too often, the public conversation about the Tongass is framed as industry vs. tribes vs. conservation vs. government. Real life is much more productive. Tribal organizations, Native corporations, federal land managers, timber companies, loggers, foresters and communities can work together when there is a shared goal.

The Tongass is a working forest, a cultural landscape, an economic resource and a place people call home. Those values don’t have to exist in separate boxes. Sometimes the best solutions come from working together. 🌲🤝

You can’t make a Steinway soundboard with young-growth timber. That’s why our industry carefully plans timber harvests t...
10/02/2026

You can’t make a Steinway soundboard with young-growth timber. That’s why our industry carefully plans timber harvests today—to ensure these unique Alaska-grown resources can continue to be used for exceptional products for generations to come.

And yet, here we are watching anti-logging environmental NGOs try to shame Steinway & Sons for using responsibly sourced Alaskan lumber to build some of the world’s most iconic pianos—pianos designed to last for generations and played on stages around the world by some of the greatest musicians and composers.

Seriously?

Are we going to shame the astronauts who train in aerospace wind tunnels? Boatbuilders? Acoustic guitar makers? Aircraft engineers? Our military for using old-growth Sitka spruce in specialized, long-life applications?

At what point does the hypocrisy become obvious?

These organizations want you to believe that using a renewable forest resource is inherently wrong—even when that resource is being used to create products that can last for generations, support American manufacturing, and require specific properties that younger timber simply cannot provide.

Old-growth Sitka spruce is not being turned into disposable two-by-fours and thrown away. Its unique properties are being used for highly specialized products where its strength, weight, resonance and stability matter.

The answer isn’t to shame the people who responsibly grow, harvest and manufacture with Alaska timber. The answer is to recognize the value of the resource and manage it so future generations can use it, too.

Alaska timber workers shouldn’t have to apologize for producing something the rest of the world considers extraordinary.

Maybe the environmental NGOs should stop shaming the end users—and start acknowledging what responsibly managed Alaska forests can actually produce.

🚨 CALL TO ACTION 🚨 Submit your public comment on the Repeal of the Roadless Rule. It takes 3 minutes and your voice will...
10/01/2026

🚨 CALL TO ACTION 🚨
Submit your public comment on the Repeal of the Roadless Rule. It takes 3 minutes and your voice will be heard.

Go to: https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/FS-2025-0001-223869

Alternative Submission Method via Mail: Hardcopy letters can be sent to the Director, Ecosystem Management Coordination, 201 14th Street SW, Mailstop 1108, Washington, DC 20250-1124.

Tell your personal story: “My family depends on forest access for our job/business/community/livlihood.”

Choose 1 to make your written statement:

✅ Explain one real-world consequence of roadless restrictions in your area.
✅ Share a local example of a road, trail, timber sale, mine, utility project, recreation area, or community that depends on Forest Service access.
✅ Explain how roads connect Southeast communities to jobs, groceries, medical care, recreation and resources.
✅ Explain how you use roads for subsistence (hunting, fishing gathering).
✅ Explain what a year-round mining job or timber industry means to you, local schools and communities.
✅ Explain how federal forest access affects you, your family, or your business.

✅ Press submit & come back and comment when you’re done!!

Repealing the Roadless Rule:
❌ does not mean every project and road would be approved.
❌ does not mean environmental regulations go away.
❌ does not mean corporations would come & clear cut huge swaths of land.
❌ does not add substantial additional acres in the current forest plan for timber harvest.

Since the creation of the Tongass National Forest in 1907, less than 8% of its productive old-growth forest has been har...
09/28/2026

Since the creation of the Tongass National Forest in 1907, less than 8% of its productive old-growth forest has been harvested. In fact, the USFS Forest Plan prohibits timber harvest on nearly 90% of the Tongass’s existing productive old-growth forest.

Our industry believes in sustainability—and in building an industry that can provide jobs, communities, and opportunities for generations to come.

That’s why we advocate for 250-year rotations on the Tongass National Forest.

We don’t just want to harvest a small portion of the forest. We want to RECREATE old growth—for the forest and for the people so that we can grow 7 generations strong in our future. We are already a third of the way through our first 250-year rotation and on our way to recreate the old growth characteristics needed for the speciality products the world demands.

🌲 FOREST HEALTH DOESN’T HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT.A healthy forest isn’t simply a forest where every tree is left standing fore...
09/25/2026

🌲 FOREST HEALTH DOESN’T HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT.

A healthy forest isn’t simply a forest where every tree is left standing forever.

Forests are living, changing ecosystems. Trees compete for sunlight, water and nutrients. Insects attack. Diseases spread. Trees age, decline and die. And when stands become overly dense or stressed, those problems can spread much faster.

The USDA Forest Service has designated 77.5 MILLION acres across 36 states as areas already experiencing—or at risk of experiencing—insect and disease infestations. (US Forest Service)

And this isn’t theoretical. In 2024 alone, the Forest Service surveyed 438 million acres for tree mortality and damage from insects and diseases. (US Forest Service)

So what do professional foresters do?

They manage the stand.

That can mean thinning overcrowded areas, removing unhealthy or infested trees, creating space for healthy trees to grow, reducing competition, improving species diversity and using treatments designed to slow the spread of pests and disease.

The Forest Service itself says healthy forests are more resilient to insect and disease attacks and that removing unhealthy trees and limiting the spread of invasive pests can help keep forests healthy for future generations. (USDA Forest Service Apps)

🌲 Forestry isn’t just about taking trees out. It’s about deciding which trees should remain, which trees need to go, and how to keep the entire stand healthy.

A forester doesn’t look at a forest and see trees to cut.

They see a forest stand to manage.

And sometimes the best thing you can do for the trees you want to keep is remove the ones competing with them, declining around them, or carrying the next infestation.

Healthy forests require more than admiration. They require stewardship.

Alaskan timber workers. Answer below 👇
09/23/2026

Alaskan timber workers. Answer below 👇

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