In the latest move in a multi-decade-long fight over the #Tongass National Forest, road-building and logging restrictions have been reinstated. As the U.S.’ largest national forest, Tongass is home to iconic #biodiversity and millions of acres of #trees.

#ProtectOurForests 🌳

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-reinstates-road-logging-restrictions-205047980.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvL2F4ejZyd3dKZUs&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEKGaEmt3KioCryp9vZH1ebDszqSEuQFf_1tQ_sCxTqsiKE5tdW9Wqti1XxkLNOpkXR9Z2pwMRKflen2N_yiP3i-0nWU5YWu4r8rXVjpbMvjxm5BWPgTSpQmx7i_9UepQugg82A1H1bgAbKrTk62BGUAw_seJ99iBIkE8hggk7H8

Tribe pleased with US federal decision (called the "Roadless Rule") Tlingit & Haida Hails the Restored Protections to the Tongass National Forest "stability and certainty to the conservation of 9.3 million acres of the United States’ largest national forest and world's last largest temperate old-growth rainforest. " #Alaska #Tongass #USFS #Conservation #Forests #IndigenousPeoples

@GottaLaff This is so important. The #Tongass stores so much carbon. A win for the planet

👏🏻“#Biden administration finalized a rule restoring protections to the 16.7 million acre #Tongass National Forest in #Alaska.

The new rule will repeal the 2020 Alaska Roadless Rule, implemented by #Trump, and revert back to a 2001 version of the rule which prohibited road construction, reconstruction and timber harvest in inventoried roadless areas.”

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/01/26/Tongass-Alaska-roadless-rule-Trump/9481674737622/