USDA will restore the 'roadless rule' in the Tongass

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Link:https://www.petersburgpilot.com/story/2023/01/26/news/usda-will-restore-the-roadless-rule-in-the-tongass/12799.html

The Biden administration will ban new logging roads and most development in much of Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday. The decision, which repeals a 2020 USDA action under the Trump administration, continues a quarter-century of action and counter-action over development in the regi...