Trump Moves to Open 16.7 Million Acre Alaskan Rainforest to Corporate Exploitation

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By Common DreamsAug 28, 2019, 10:15 am242 pts
By Jake Johnson President Donald Trump has reportedly ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to open Alaska's 16.7 million-acre Tongass National Forest — the planet's largest intact temperate rainforest — to logging and other corporate development projects, a move that comes as thousands of fires are…

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