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The carbon-rich old-growth forests of the Tongass NF AK will be opened for more logging under the Trump administration. Photo George Wuerthner This would reverse a restriction on logging and ...
One of the first Executive Orders from the Trump Whitehouse is to reverse environmental protections for federal lands in Alaska and hasten, expand, and encourage resource development.
The order also removes Biden-era protections for Alaska’s Tongass National Forest ... permitted industrial logging in much of the old-growth forest. The Biden administration banned logging ...
A creek 45 miles northeast of Sitka is getting a makeover this summer. The U.S. Forest Service approved the Muri Creek Stream ...
“The old expression goes that Nero fiddled while Rome burned ... mining and logging from the state’s Arctic North Slope to the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska. In the western Arctic, the ...
The U.S. Forest Service has completed assessment reports on over 20 topics that will inform how the Tongass National Forest ...
The older stands are blue magenta. Everything that’s younger is yellows or oranges or light greens. You can color it any way ...
Can Washington state hold off harvesting older forests in the face of a projected $12 billion budget deficit without ...