Our "Environmentalist" president.
President Trump has instructed Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to exempt Alaska’s 16.7 million-acre Tongass National Forest from logging restrictions imposed nearly 20 years ago, according to three people briefed on the issue, after privately discussing the matter with the state’s governor aboard Air Force One.
The move would affect more than half of the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, opening it up to potential logging, energy and mining projects.
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The move would affect more than half of the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, opening it up to potential logging, energy and mining projects.
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In case you're wondering, the timber industry provides less than 1% of all jobs in Alaska. So if not workers, who's benefitting?
