The Stream, February 1, 2023: US Government Restores Protections for Alaska’s Tongass Forest
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FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Millions of acres of Alaska’s Tongass forest, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, will once again be federally protected from road-building and timber harvests. In 2001, the Clinton administration enacted the Roadless Rule , which banned road-building and timber harvesting in certain forested areas, including much of the Tongass.
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