And so it continues, the rolling back of environmental protection in some of our most critical remaining habitat. Vote Democratic and for Biden to end this madness.
President Donald 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.
Logging in Alaska costs U.S. taxpayers millions each year, because of a long-standing federal mandate that companies profit from any timber sale. This means the Forest Service often covers harvesters’ costs, including road building. According to a Taxpayer for Common Sense analysis of the Forest Service’s accounts, the Tongass timber program has lost roughly $1.7 billion over the last 40 years.
Seattle Times
Filed under: Climate Change, Environmental Protection, forestry, Government, legislation | Tagged: alaska, rainforest, Tongass Forest |
Dammit anyhow!
If the Salish Sea is ours to preserve and restore, the Tongass National Forest is a foundation, the seed, of that vital sea-forest ecology that we need to realize sustainability here. What can we do: vote, inform and resist.