Alaska Region

🚨Early Fire Season Declared in Alaska – Burn Permits Required March 17 in coastal and southern areas due to low snow pack. Affected areas: Copper River-Valdez, Mat-Su, Kenai-Kodiak, Southwest & Southeast AK. Help prevent human-caused wildfires! akfireinfo.com/2025/03/06/ear…

For next week's international #snowmobilesafetyweek, learn about riding safely riding in avalanche terrain. Find the avalanche center closest to you for daily forecasts at avalanche.org/us-avalanche-c… and learn more about winter rec: fs.usda.gov/detail/r4/recr…

Snow machining is now open in the Snug Harbor access to Lost Lake! ❄️ Just like with last time, all areas lined in red (see map) remain closed to snow machine operations. fs.usda.gov/alerts/chugach…

Working on those New Year’s resolutions? Now is a particularly good time to work on home “hardening” projects, especially if you live in or near forested areas. Learn more about being #Firewise at NFPA - Firewise USA®: nfpa.org/education-and.…

🌲 Firewise the Valley 🌲 Join us on March 4th at 5 PM at the Wasilla Public Library to learn how to make your property & community wildfire-resilient! Presentations from Alaska Forestry & NRCS, plus cost-share opportunities. Register here :bit.ly/4heDbn7

Snow machining is open in the Turnagain Pass area (see map, lined in green)! Note: snow machine operations is prohibited 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞 on the Glacier & Seward Ranger Districts due to lack of snow coverage (see map, lined in red). fs.usda.gov/alerts/chugach…

Four-legged influencers in Alaska take the Internet by storm fs.usda.gov/inside-fs/out-… #AnanBearAwards

FIRE UPDATES: For the latest fire and all-risk incident updates, visit inciweb.wildfire.gov. The USDA Forest Service is actively supporting a multi-agency response to the devastating fires in Southern California.

Two different Wrangell Christmas trees! So good to be home in Wrangell today (just down the beach from where I grew up)

My time here allowed for reflection on resilience in the face of change. This gift of immersion in such a magical landscape will fuel my creative endeavors for years to come." - Jessie Sheldon, 2024 artist-in-residence. This could be you, apply today! fs.usda.gov/goto/votw

so-mo flow of glacial rivers of ice to rapid calving events rumbling through the fiords. It was both humbling and inspiring to be a visitor in this extreme environment and to witness the life that has carved out niches within this epic convergence of ice, earth, and ocean...

"This July, I had the privilege of joining wilderness managers in the Nellie Juan-College Fiord Wilderness Study Area. Here the landscape is anything but still and quiet. All around us, change was occurring at different rates, whether over a millenia or a minute, from the...

The priority deadline to apply for the ANSEP 2025 Summer Bridge component is today! High school seniors from anywhere in the state are able to experience exciting, paid internships with our strategic partners and earn scholarships. Apply today at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

It was hard work being a waterfall in Portage #Alaska today #weather

that mid-week feeling... (USDA Forest Service photo by Don MacDougall.)

January is National Skiing Safety Month ⛷️ Don't forget to follow Your Responsibility Code nsaa.org/NSAA/Safety/Yo… when you hit the slopes! (USDA Forest Service photo by Kyle Gallaher.)

Alaska’s Tongass National Forest is the largest national forest in the U.S.! Bigger than the state of West Virginia, the Tongass stretches along southeast Alaska’s coast and forms part of the world’s largest temperate rainforest.

Just two more weeks until it's the Summer Bridge application priority deadline! ANSEP covers all costs, and students who complete the program are eligible for scholarship funding to attend the @UA_System. Don’t miss out—apply today at tinyurl.com/y5cr7va4

Happy NYE from Alaska's National Forests! As night turns to day, colors dash across the sky as if a bid for one last breath. While the sun, yet again, wins this eternal battle, the pallet of colors stands determined to show all its beauty by painting the skies over the Tongass.

Our media partner, @AKNewsNow , did a full feature on the Capitol Christmas Tree effort. See it all, from selection to lighting, and hear from so many of the amazing people who made it happen. Watch here: buff.ly/41Qo5jg #USCapitolChristmasTree #AlaskanChristmas