The Trump administration's removal of safeguards in Alaska's Tongass National Forest, the world's biggest intact temperate rainforest, was reversed by the Biden administration on Thursday.
The United States Department of Agriculture announced its intention to "repeal or replace" a Trump-era rule that obliterated Tongass protections by lifting Clinton-era logging restrictions across 9.3 million forested acres and reclassifying 188,000 acres immediately suitable for harvesting, including 168,000 acres of old-growth timber.
Repealing Trump's Law
The Alaska Wilderness League's Andy Moderow said in a statement Thursday that "we shouldn't be contemplating the ongoing clearcutting of a natural climate solution that exists here in our own backyard" since "we are suffering climate consequences more intensely than others."
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