Environmental

Forest Service Plan Would Perpetuate Destruction of Tongass Old-Growth

Proposed plan continues the controversy of old-growth logging for years to come, fails to protect real economic drivers, and impairs the country’s ability to combat climate change

Tongass National Forest, view from Deer Mountain Trail.
Tongass National Forest. Mark Meyer / USDA
Juneau, AK —(ENEWSPF)–June 30, 2016.  Today, the U.S. Forest Service released its long-awaited proposal for amending the Tongass Land Management Plan and the results are disappointing.  We will continue to work with the Obama administration to correct the pervasive mistakes in…

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