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Trump strips protections for Tongass forest, opening it to logging
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Oct 28, 2020 10:54am |
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| Category | Rule Change |
| Author | Rebecca Beitsch |
| News Date | Wednesday, October 28, 2020 04:10:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Trump administration on Wednesday lifted protections for Alaska's Tongass National Forest, a move that will expand logging in the nation’s largest old-growth forest.
A notice posted in the Federal Register lifts the so-called Roadless Rule for the Tongass, a Clinton-era prohibition on road construction and timber harvesting on many Forest Service lands.
Under the Trump administration’s changes, the nearly 9.4 million acres of inventoried roadless land in Tongass Forest would once again be considered suitable timberlands. |
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