Earthjustice: Biden Administration Takes Action to Protect Tongass National Forest
June 12, 2021
June 12, 2021
JUNEAU, Alaska, June 12 -- Earthjustice issued the following statement on June 11, 2021:
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The U.S. Forest Service today announced it will revisit a Trump administration decision to eliminate forest protections in much of Alaska's Tongass National Forest and will soon engage in a process to reconsider the Trump rule. The move will impact new logging and roadbuilding proposals across some nine million acres of temperate rainforest in southeast Alaska. These vast swat . . .
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The U.S. Forest Service today announced it will revisit a Trump administration decision to eliminate forest protections in much of Alaska's Tongass National Forest and will soon engage in a process to reconsider the Trump rule. The move will impact new logging and roadbuilding proposals across some nine million acres of temperate rainforest in southeast Alaska. These vast swat . . .