Huge win for environmental and indigenous rights here - the Biden WH has announced it will stop the previous administration's effort to remove protections for the Tongass National Forest. The Trump WH had argued it was necessary to revive the timber industry in southeast Alaska and would have negligible environmental impact. Many Alaskans were hotly divided on the issue, and indigenous groups were certainly dead against it. The Tongass NF is truly a sight to behold for those who haven't been up to Juneau or Ketchikan.
The Trump rule in question created an exemption from a Clinton-era prohibition on road construction and timber harvesting on many Forest Service lands that is known as the "roadless rule."
The change was expected to impact nearly 9.4 million acres of roadless land in the Tongass.
The Tongass National Forest is a major carbon sink, meaning its trees soak up carbon from the atmosphere, lessening the impacts of climate change. The Forest Service found in 2016 that it stores more carbon than any other forest in the country.
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