(Anchorage, AK) – Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy welcomed support from Southeast communities and businesses in defense of the 2020 Tongass Exemption Rule to the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule (Roadless Rule). Tuesday, a group of twenty-three parties moved to intervene in litigation to support defense of the 2020 Tongass Exemption Rule. The group includes former […]
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Thursday announced the upcoming publication of a Final Environmental Impact Statement that describes the environmental effects of six alternatives, including whether the Tongass National Forest should be exempted from the 2001 Roadless Rule. A copy of the final statement will be available on the project […]
JUNEAU, AK—SalmonState commented on the U.S. Forest Service’s announcement Thursday, in a press release, that it will open more than 9 million acres of the Tongass National Forest to taxpayer-subsidized old-growth logging and industrial development. The Forest Service said it is forging ahead with a full exemption to the Roadless Rule, something Alaska’s Congressional […]
JUNEAU, Alaska― A federal judge today rejected the Trump administration’s enormous commercial timber harvest and road-building plan for Prince of Wales Island in the Tongass National Forest of southeast Alaska. The judge ruled that the project’s approval violated the National Environmental Policy Act, which sets standards for public engagement on federal projects that will alter the environment, […]
