Haines State Forest land on the western bank of the Lynn Canal near Haines, July 14, 2025. (Will Steinfeld/Chilkat Valley News)

The federal government is expected to open 28 million acres of land in the state to new development and land ownership in the coming weeks, likely with little prior announcement. 

The anticipated change is part of a Trump administration effort to spur resource development in Alaska, and would do so by removing a specific…

Will Steinfeld is a documentary photographer and reporter in Southeast Alaska, formerly in New England.