Trump Opens Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to Logging
Published by the Environmental News Service
WASHINGTON, DC, October 28, 2020 (ENS) – President Donald Trump’s administration has finalized plans to reverse roadless protections for the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska that have been in place for nearly 20 years. On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released its final rule exempting the Tongass National Forest from the Roadless Rule, opening up 9.4 million acres of the largest old-growth temperate rainforest in North America to logging, roadbuilding, and further development.
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