From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): The Tongass National Forest teems with life, from its 800-year-old trees to its salmon-rich mountain streams to its tens of thousands of black and brown bears. But when the Trump administration erased critical protections for this forest, … Continued
Posted at https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2019-12-18/public-lands-wilderness/roadless-rule-exemption-called-threat-to-natural-areas/a68648-1 December 18, 2019 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window Conservation groups fear that if one state is exempted from the federal Roadless Rule, others will follow. (scharfsinn86/Adobe Stock) HARRISBURG, Pa. – … Continued
From the Alaska Wilderness League (http://www.alaskawild.org): Check out Tuesday’s article in the Washington Post, which highlights the administration’s attempt to jumpstart industrial-scale old-growth logging in the last largely intact temperate rainforest in America, the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska. … Continued
From the Alaska Wilderness League (http://www.alaskawild.org): The Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska is one of the last places in the world where wild salmon continue to thrive. The fish are a life force for Alaskans and iconic Tongass wildlife … Continued
From the Alaska Wilderness League (http://www.alaskawild.org): The Forest Service just released a timber sale in the Tongass National Forest that will allow for logging alongside one of the most important wild salmon streams in southeast Alaska. We need your help … Continued