Trump to strip protections from the Tongass National Forest

 

He’s burning down the house on his way out the door.

The Trump administration has announced it will lift protections in Alaska’s Tongass national forest, permitting logging in the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest.

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 — featuring old-growth stands of red and yellow cedar, Sitka spruce, and Western hemlock.

LINK (via: Courthouse News)

 

 

 

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