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With Trump’s new pro-timber order, Alaska conservationists poised to rehash Tongass Roadless Rule
"The parties on our side change whether we're with or against the federal government," said the Southeast Alaska Conservation ...
An Executive Order from President Trump Could Strip Protections from Millions of Acres of Prized Hunting and Fishing Grounds in Alaska
Just hours into his second term, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order called “Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary ...
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Trump reignites debate on Alaska logging
The decision to again lift limits on roadless-area development sets up a rematch over the Tongass National Forest.
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Alaska Native Tribes, Businesses, Forest Advocates Intervene to Protect Tongass National Forest’s Roadless Rule
The coalition, represented by Earthjustice and the Natural Resources Defense Council, is intervening to prevent industrial logging and damaging roadbuilding on more than 9 million mostly undeveloped ...
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Trump Administration Paves Way for Old-growth Clearcutting in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest
JUNEAU, Alaska― The Trump administration announced plans today to gut longstanding protections against logging and road building in the Tongass National Forest, a cherished old-growth temperate ...
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How 3 Native American tribes are fighting to protect sacred land from logging, oil pipelines, and a billion-dollar telescope
They say that logging, oil pipelines, and constructions threaten their sustainability. Indigenous tribes in Alaska are fighting to protect the US' largest national forest In Alaska, the Tongass ...
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Trump signs executive order to boost development of Alaska’s ‘extraordinary’ natural resources
A sweeping executive order signed by President Donald Trump during the first hours of his second term aims to boost Alaska’s ...
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Woven Peoples and Place: U.S. Forest Service’s Tongass collaboration a ‘promise to the future’
The communities of the Tongass National Forest have embraced an approach where ... the boom of industrial-scale old-growth and clearcut logging that defined the last decades of Tongass management ...
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Alaska leaders cheer Trump oil and gas drilling executive order
"It means a timber industry in the Tongass National Forest can once ... and reverse restrictions on logging and road-building in a temperate rainforest. Gwich’in leaders oppose drilling on ...