The US Department of Agriculture announced this month an end to large-scale old growth timber sales in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, “returning stability and certainty” to the conservation of 9.3 million acres of the world’s largest temperate old growth rainforest. The USDA will also move to restore the two-decades-old ‘Roadless Rule’ protections at Tongass, which […]
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