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Related: About this forumTrump pushes to allow new logging in Alaska's Tongass National Forest
The Washington Post RetweetedTrump has instructed Agriculture Sec. Sonny Perdue to exempt Alaskas 16.7 million-acre Tongass National Forest from logging restrictions imposed nearly 20 years ago.
It would affect more than half of the worlds largest intact temperate rainforest.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/trump-pushes-to-allow-new-logging-in-alaskas-tongass-national-forest/2019/08/27/b4ca78d6-c832-11e9-be05-f76ac4ec618c_story.html?wpisrc=al_news__alert-politics--alert-national&wpmk=1
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Bill Clinton put more than half of it off limits to logging just days before leaving office in 2001 and George W. Bush sought to reverse that policy.
Now, Trump's move could open the Tongass up to potential logging, energy and mining projects. https://wapo.st/329rQOW
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Politicians have tussled for years over the fate of the Tongass, a massive stretch of southeastern Alaska replete with old-growth spruce, hemlock and cedar, rivers running with salmon, and dramatic fjords.
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Trump pushes to allow new logging in Alaska's Tongass National Forest (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Aug 2019
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handmade34
(22,757 posts)1. we must act out against this....
in all ways possible
https://www.sierraclub.org/ways-to-give
bdamomma
(63,922 posts)2. Rachel was
just showing that beautiful national forest. I will definitely give a donation.
handmade34
(22,757 posts)3. I support Sierra Club
they are actively working to save the environment from this administration's vile rollback of regulations...
they have active state chapters as well that do good work
https://www.youtube.com/user/NationalSierraClub