Trump Authorizes Logging In Alaskan National Forest Less Than Two Weeks After Signing Trillion Trees Initiative

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TOPLINE

Less than two weeks after signing an executive order to have the U.S. join the One Trillion Trees Initiative, President Donald Trump stripped nearly 20-year-old protections from Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, one of the world’s largest intact temperate rainforests, paving the way for new roads and logging in over 9.3 million acres of near-virgin forest.

A forest scene at Takatz Bay on Baranof Island, Tongass...
A forest scene at Takatz Bay on Baranof Island, Tongass National Forest, Alaska, USA.(PHOTO BY WOLFGANG KAEHLER/LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES)

KEY FACTS

Starting Thursday it will be legal to pave roads andcut downand remove timber from Tongass National Forest, according to a report by theWashington Post; it has been under federal protection since2001.

Experts say Tongass is a “massive carbon sink” where the trees, some of which are up to…

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  1. Sigh. Logging the Tongass National Forest, drilling in the ANWR, and delisting wolves in the Great Lakes. Please vote Blue, people!

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