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14 Jun 2021, 1:47 pm
The Tongass National Forest was protected under the 2001 “roadless rule,” which prohibited logging and road construction on 58.5 million acres of National Forest lands. [read post]
12 Apr 2010, 10:43 am
Divergent Interests at Loggerheads in Spectacular Tongass National Forest [read post]
8 Mar 2011, 12:39 pm
Federal Judge Reinstates Roadless Rule in Tongass National Forest :: Organized Village of Kake v. [read post]
24 Dec 2020, 8:09 pm
Five Alaska Native tribes filed a lawsuit on Wednesday to challenge the Trump administration’s attempt to allow logging in the 17 million acre Tongass National Forest. [read post]
27 Jan 2023, 5:47 am
https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2023/01/25/biden-harris-administration-finalizes-protections-tongass-national Repealing the 2020 Alaska Roadless Rule, which exempted the Tongass from roadless protections, will return the inventoried roadless areas of the forest to management under the 2001 Roadless Rule, which prohibits road construction, reconstruction, and timber harvest in inventoried roadless areas, with limited exceptions. [read post]
5 Sep 2017, 9:38 am
Forest Service and Department of Agriculture (collectively, “Forest Service”) on behalf of individuals who fish, hunt, and “enjoy” Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. [read post]
5 Sep 2017, 9:38 am
Forest Service and Department of Agriculture (collectively, “Forest Service”) on behalf of individuals who fish, hunt, and “enjoy” Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
Conserving the Tongass means preserving the climate, Native ways of life, and ecosystems that are crucial to the local economy. [read post]
2 Aug 2009, 2:58 pm
Nathaniel Lawrence, an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Counsel, questions the idea of timber sales on the Tongass National Forest. [read post]
28 Mar 2016, 9:01 am
Supreme Court Denies Effort to Overturn Tongass National Forest ProtectionsWaste Information & Management Services, Inc. [read post]
26 Mar 2014, 10:35 am
The panel held that in its 2003 Record of Decision, the Department of Agriculture articulated a number of legitimate grounds for temporarily exempting the Tongass Forest from the 2001 Roadless Rule. [read post]
18 Feb 2010, 5:09 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] granted summary judgment [opinion, PDF] for the National Forest Service (NFS) [official website] Wednesday, upholding an agreement limiting the amount of timber that can be harvested in Alaska's Tongass National Forest [official website]. [read post]
7 Nov 2010, 12:11 pm
Check out this audio report from KCAW in Sitka, Alaska about the Forest Service's efforts there to involve local communities in so-called "sustainable recreation" on the Tongass National Forest. [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 4:27 pm
KSTK reports on the Forest Service's decision to reduce the amount of timber sales on the Tongass National Forest. [read post]
30 Jul 2015, 9:06 am
The en banc [full] court affirmed the district court's summary judgment in favor of the Organized Village of Kake, finding that the United States Department of Agriculture's promulgation of the Tongass National Forest Exemption to the Department's "Roadless Rule" (limiting road construction and timber harvesting in national forests) violated the Administrative Procedure Act; vacated… [read post]
2 Sep 2014, 8:48 am
Court to Reconsider Decision on Roadless Areas of Alaska's Tongass National Forest - 8/29/14. [read post]
13 Jan 2010, 7:36 am
Alaska - Environmental groups including Greenpeace are suing the Forest Service to stop the Logjam Project on the Tongass National Forest. [read post]
27 Mar 2015, 4:05 am
Last week, District Judge Ralph Beistline allowed the summary judgment motion filed by the United States Forest Service, and dismissed citizen claims challenging the Forest Service decision to approve an logging project in an old growth area in the Tongass National Forest known as Big Thorne. [read post]
25 Sep 2009, 11:20 am
The Tongass NF project will provide up to 73 million board feet of timber. [read post]
26 May 2010, 7:49 pm
The Forest Service today couched its new policy for the Tongass National Forest under the guise of jobs creation. [read post]
