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

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

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, which prohibits road construction and timber harvesting on 58.5 million acres […]

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    Wolves Are Losing Ground to Industrial Logging in Southeast Alaska

    Wolves Are Losing Ground to Industrial Logging in Southeast Alaska

    By Faith Rudebusch For 12,000 years, wolves have roamed Southeast Alaska’s rugged Alexander Archipelago—a 300-mile stretch of more than 1,000 islands mostly within the Tongass National Forest. Now, their old-growth forest habitat is rapidly disappearing, putting the wolves at risk. As the region’s logging policies garner controversy, a new study examines what the wolves need […]