Earthjustice: Federal Court Rules Against Massive Old-Growth Rainforest Logging Plan in Alaska
March 13, 2020
March 13, 2020
JUNEAU, Alaska, March 13 -- Earthjustice issued the following news release on March 11:
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- Decision is a win for subsistence hunters and families on Alaska's Prince of Wales Island
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A federal judge rejected an enormous commercial timber harvest and road-building plan for Prince of Wales Island in the Tongass National Forest of Southeast Alaska. The judge ruled that project approval violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) . . .
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- Decision is a win for subsistence hunters and families on Alaska's Prince of Wales Island
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A federal judge rejected an enormous commercial timber harvest and road-building plan for Prince of Wales Island in the Tongass National Forest of Southeast Alaska. The judge ruled that project approval violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) . . .