Alaskan tribes and nonprofits file suit to save America's largest national forest
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For decades, “the lungs of the country” were protected from American citizens who sought to alter it with roads and logging.
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Lawsuit challenges Trump's lifting of roadless rule in Alaska's Tongass forest
A coalition of Alaska Native tribes and environmentalists filed suit on Wednesday challenging a new Trump administration policy that opens vast swaths of the largest U.S. national forest to logging, mining and other commercial development. The lawsuit, joined by tourism and fishing organizations, seeks to reinstate prohibitions on road-building through previously protected areas in the Tongass National Forest of southeastern Alaska, the world's…
Lawsuit challenges Trump's lifting of roadless rule in Alaska's Tongass forest
A coalition of Alaska Native tribes and environmentalists filed suit on Wednesday challenging a new Trump administration policy that opens vast swaths of the largest U.S. national forest to logging, mining and other commercial development.
Lawsuit challenges Trump's lifting of roadless rule in Alaska's Tongass forest
ANCHORAGE -- A coalition of Alaska Native tribes and environmentalists filed suit on Wednesday challenging a new Trump administration policy that opens vast swaths of the largest U.S. national forest to logging, mining and other commercial development. Read More
Lawsuit challenges Trump's lifting of roadless rule in Alaska's Tongass forest
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A coalition of Alaska Native tribes and environmentalists filed suit on Wednesday challenging a new Trump administration policy that opens vast swaths of the largest U.S. national forest to logging, mining and other commercial development.