ENVIRONMENT/REGULATIONS: “President Trump will open up more than half of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to logging and other forms of development, according to a notice posted Wednesday, stripping protections that had safeguarded one of the world’s largest intact temperate rainforests for nearly two decades.
As of Thursday, it will be legal for logging companies to build roads and cut and remove timber throughout more than 9.3 million acres of forest…
The decision, which will be published in the Federal Register, reverses protections President Bill Clinton put in place in 2001 and is one of the most sweeping public lands rollbacks Trump has enacted.”
-Juliet Eilperin, “Trump to strip protections from Tongass National Forest, one of the biggest intact temperate rainforests,” washingtonpost.com, Oct. 28, 2020