President Trump will open up more than half of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to logging and other forms of development, according to a notice posted Wednesday, stripping protections that had safeguarded one of the world’s largest intact temperate rainforests for nearly two decades.
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Trump to strip protections from Tongass National Forest, one of the biggest intact temperate rainforests
October 28, 2020 at 11:50 a.m. EDT