Victory: Court leaves rules in place that protect Tongass rainforest wildlands from damaging logging, road construction
The Tongass National Forest, Alaska. Earleliason/iStock Photo
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–March 28, 2016. The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear a last-ditch effort by the State of Alaska to exempt America’s largest national forest from a national rule protecting undeveloped, road-free national forest areas from logging and road construction. The State sought to overturn a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that kept…
