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Alaska tribe, conservation groups sue to stop 5,000-acre old-growth Tongass logging plan
They say logging mature forest at that scale could strain natural systems.
Conservationists are pushing back on a massive old-growth logging plan by the U.S. Forest Service, which would carve new roads through thousands of acres of Alaska's Tongass National Forest. The ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CN) — Significant amounts of old-growth trees in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest are on the federal chopping block, prompting a Thursday lawsuit from the Ketchikan Indian Community ...
The U.S. Forest Service is reviving a massive old-growth logging project that covers more than 40,000 acres on the southern part of Revilla Island east of Ketchikan in the Tongass National Forest. The ...
The rule change would affect the 9 million undeveloped acres of Alaska's Tongass National Forest, plus vast swaths elsewhere ...
ÁAK’W KWÁAN AANÍ/JUNEAU, Alaska— A Southeast Alaska Tribe and two conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the U.S. Forest Service’s approval of a 15-year, large-scale old-growth logging ...
The fight for the largest intact temperate forest in the United States continues with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service announcing on Friday, April 24, that it will open 1,655 acres ...
The end of "roadless rule" protections would open millions of acres of pristine forests to commercial use. Supporters say it will lead to better managed forests.
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