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3 May 2024, 6:00 am
., through the uptake of carbon and storage in forests, vegetation, and soils) from management of lands in their current use or as lands are converted to other uses. [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]
26 Jan 2023, 9:03 pm
Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a final rule that will provide protection from road development for the Tongass National Forest in Alaska. [read post]
16 Jul 2021, 5:45 am
[SFChronicle] * Horton Hears a Restoration: Biden plans to restore protection for Tongass National Forest. [read post]
17 Jun 2021, 9:45 pm
The Trump Administration exempted the Tongass National Forest from the Clinton-era Roadless Rule that protected nearly 60 million acres of land in the national forests from timber harvesting and road construction. [read post]
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]
6 Jan 2021, 9:00 pm
Department of Agriculture (USDA) that exempts the Tongass National Forest from the “roadless rule,” a regulation that limits road construction and timber harvesting in designated wild areas. [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]
26 Jun 2020, 1:32 pm
Our current priorities include protecting America’s Arctic from oil and gas development, roadless area and old growth forest protection on the Tongass National Forest, and opposition to several proposed large-scale mines in western and southeast Alaska and on transboundary rivers in Canada. [read post]
12 Mar 2020, 9:05 pm
A report by Alaska Public Media previously alleged that government money had funded the Alaska Forest Association’s efforts to obtain an exemption from a proposed federal rule that would restrict the construction of new logging access roads in the Tongass National Forest. [read post]
17 Oct 2019, 9:05 pm
Department of Agriculture issued a proposed rule that would open a portion of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to commercial logging. [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]
11 Jan 2017, 3:49 am
A good example of the limits on the ability to revoke prior enacted rules is the Tongass National forest exemption to the U.S. [read post]
6 Apr 2016, 6:00 am
Commentary on the denial of review in “a long-running dispute over preserving large areas of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest from logging” comes from Hank Lacey at Natural Resources Today. [read post]
28 Mar 2016, 9:01 am
Supreme Court Denies Effort to Overturn Tongass National Forest ProtectionsWaste Information & Management Services, Inc. [read post]
1 Aug 2015, 2:00 am
This rule has particular importance for the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska. [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]
29 Jul 2015, 11:01 am
Because when the Department of Agriculture decided, after substantial study and public input, to keep the Tongass National Forest roadless, President Clinton was in office. [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]
