"It contains massive amounts of carbon in the forest areas, much more than, say, the Amazon on a per acre basis," Furnish said. This is the final challenge to Roadless Rule provisions nationwide, although matters in the Tongass remain unsettled. Photo: Colin Arisman, Wild Confluence Media. Recreational sports, such as hunting and fishing, on top of the thriving tourism industry within the Tongass, also contribute to Alaska’s economy, employing over 10,000 Alaska residents a year. Respect copyrights: Post citations to sources appropriate • Ed Rollins, longtime Republican campaign consultant and adviser, was the National Campaign Director for the successful Reagan-Bush 1984 campaign and is currently the chairman of the pro–Donald Trump Great America PAC. WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday finalized its plan to open about nine million acres of the pristine woodlands of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to logging and road construction. Perpetually failing to align with their own constituents on the issue, Alaska politicians have never embraced the rule. Last week, the administration announced it was completing plans to open 9 million acres of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska to logging and road construction. Emissions Dropped in 2019: Here's Why in 6 Charts, Biden Could Reduce the Nation’s Production of Oil and Gas, but Probably Not as Much as Many Hope, Senate 2020: In Alaska, a Controversy Over an Embattled Mine Has Tightened the Race, Exxon Turns to Academia to Try to Discredit Harvard Research, Senate 2020: In Mississippi, a Surprisingly Close Race For a Trump-Tied Promoter of Fossil Fuels. The administration had until last month been moving swiftly to grant a permit to Pebble Mine, a vast proposed gold and copper extraction facility, until the president’s son Donald J. Trump Jr. publicly opposed it. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which oversees the Forest Service, issued a report in 2016, “Tongass National Forest Demand: Projections for 2015 to 2030,” which states that “the majority of southeast Alaska logs were sent to the Pacific Rim” region, (China, Japan and Korea), and that “the share of logs sent there was over 90% in both 2005 and 2011.” For Tongass logs, the USDA reports that “China is by far the largest single purchaser,” with an additional April 2020 USFS analysis indicating that “Alaska timber market conditions are driven by log exports to China.”, TOP STORIES Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, who has urged Mr. Trump to lift the rule, contends that removing the roadless protections would help Alaska’s economy, but not necessarily lead to the loss of major swaths of the forest. Oct. 27 — Last day to send a completed absentee ballot by mail to try to ensure it arrives on Election Day. Quiz: How much do you know about U.S. presidents? Welcome! Jim Furnish, who served as deputy chief of the Forest Service from 1999 to 2002, during the time that the Roadless Rule was enacted, has been vocal in his support for the rule, including testifying before Congress in November. The policy stopped logging and road building in much of the national forest system, protecting resources for the past two decades. This report contains public information from law enforcement and public safety agencies. Thursday, September 24, 2020 5:52pm President Trump can get it right here by upholding these important protections for our forest, and for our economy. Tourism and fishing provide 26 percent of jobs in the region, while the timber industry provides less than 1 percent. Credit: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images. He had planned to paddle in the Northwest territories of Canada. No commercial peddling: Promotions of commercial goods and We focus attention on the Tongass for several reasons. It requests a more thorough consultation with tribes, and the elevation of their governments as collaborative partners with the U.S. Forest Service in decisions affecting areas important to tribal subsistence and traditions. The public, both in Alaska and the rest of the country strongly disagreed, inundating the Forest Service with over a quarter of a million comments. Katelyn Weisbrod is a web producer for InsideClimate News based in Minnesota. The move comes as President Trump wraps up a first term in which he aggressively targeted environmental protections, rolling back or weakening more than 100 regulations that had been designed to protect the nation’s air, water and public lands from pollution. During the current process to remove Roadless Rule protections from the Tongass, tribes felt their feedback was disregarded. For no other reason, people who care about the environment have a reason to vote — a President Joe Biden could reverse those decisions and restore protections in the early days of office.

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