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Roadless area conservation: No roads, no extractive activities

Trump pushes to allow new logging in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest
* "The move would affect more than half of the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, opening it to potential logging, energy and mining projects. It would undercut a sweeping Clinton administration policy known as the “roadless rule,” which has survived a decades-long legal assault." >>
https://geosinstitute.org/past-initiative-forest-legacies/tongass/trump-pushes-to-allow-new-logging-in-alaska-s-tongass-national-forest/

* "Roadless area conservation is a conservation policy limiting road construction and the resulting environmental impact on designated areas of public land...In 'Industrial Tourism and the National Parks': Abbey describes road construction as "unnecessary or destructive development" and the loss of wilderness as a consequence of what he called "industrial tourism", where once-secluded natural areas become popularized and degraded." >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadless_area_conservation

* What Is the Roadless Rule? "Enacted in 2001, the Roadless Area Conservation Rule (Roadless Rule) designated forests across the country as “inventoried roadless areas,” prohibiting the building of — you guessed it, new roads — but also logging and other harmful industries on these lands." >>
https://environmentamerica.org/articles/what-is-the-roadless-rule-and-why-should-you-care-about-it/
#forests #biodiversity #rainforest #roads #harm #extractivism #roadless #conservation #LoggingImpacts #mining #tourism #BellingenLogging #GlenifferRoad #NSWLogging #RoadlessRule

Statewide coalition files suit challenging reimposition of Tongass National Forest’s Roadless Rule
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JUNEAU – On Friday, Sept. 8, 2023, a group of 24 diverse, statewide Alaska resource associations, Southeast Alaska communities, utilities, and businesses filed a Complaint opposing the U.S. Department of...
https://alaska-native-news.com/statewide-coalition-files-suit-challenging-reimposition-of-tongass-national-forests-roadless-rule/69814/
#tongass #roadless rule

Statewide coalition files suit challenging reimposition of Tongass National Forest’s Roadless Rule
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JUNEAU – On Friday, Sept. 8, 2023, a group of 24 diverse, statewide Alaska resource associations, Southeast Alaska communities, utilities, and businesses filed a Complaint opposing the U.S. Department of...
https://alaska-native-news.com/statewide-coalition-files-suit-challenging-reimposition-of-tongass-national-forests-roadless-rule/69814/
#tongass #roadless rule

Statewide coalition files suit challenging reimposition of Tongass National Forest’s Roadless Rule
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JUNEAU – On Friday, Sept. 8, 2023, a group of 24 diverse, statewide Alaska resource associations, Southeast Alaska communities, utilities, and businesses filed a Complaint opposing the U.S. Department of...
https://alaska-native-news.com/statewide-coalition-files-suit-challenging-reimposition-of-tongass-national-forests-roadless-rule/69814/
#tongass #roadless rule

Statewide coalition files suit challenging reimposition of Tongass National Forest’s Roadless Rule
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JUNEAU – On Friday, Sept. 8, 2023, a group of 24 diverse, statewide Alaska resource associations, Southeast Alaska communities, utilities, and businesses filed a Complaint opposing the U.S. Department of...
https://alaska-native-news.com/statewide-coalition-files-suit-challenging-reimposition-of-tongass-national-forests-roadless-rule/69814/
#tongass #roadless rule

Statewide coalition files suit challenging reimposition of Tongass National Forest’s Roadless Rule
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JUNEAU – On Friday, Sept. 8, 2023, a group of 24 diverse, statewide Alaska resource associations, Southeast Alaska communities, utilities, and businesses filed a Complaint opposing the U.S. Department of...
https://alaska-native-news.com/statewide-coalition-files-suit-challenging-reimposition-of-tongass-national-forests-roadless-rule/69814/
#tongass #roadless rule