How Chaos Will Unfold if Trump Opens the Tongass to Logging
How Chaos Will Unfold if Trump Opens the Tongass to Logging
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
October 21, 20195m 54s
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Show Notes
The Trump administration this week proposed ending the so-called Roadless Rule, which banned logging, development, and road construction in Alaska’s Tongass, the biggest national forest in the US. If the USDA Forest Service has its way, it would “remove all 9.2 million acres of inventoried roadless acres and would convert 165,000 old-growth acres and 20,000 young-growth acres previously identified as unsuitable timber lands to suitable timber lands.
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