Trump Admin Moves Closer to Slashing Protections for World’s Largest Temperate Rainforest

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By Olivia RosaneOct 16, 2019, 8:31 am149 pts
The Trump administration has moved one step closer to opening Earth's largest intact temperate rainforest to logging. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service announced it would draft an environmental impact statement exempting Alaska's Tongass National Forest from the 2001 Roadless Rule,…

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