Federal law doesn't mandate minimum amounts of logging in Alaska's Tongass rainforest, judge says

Federal law doesn't mandate minimum amounts of logging in Alaska's Tongass rainforest, judge says

A federal judge in Alaska has rejected a lawsuit that sought to reinstate a management plan that would allow heavier logging in the world’s largest temperate old-growth rainforest. The result leaves an Obama-era management plan in place, but it could be short-lived: The administration of President Donald Trump is already at work on a new plan that could allow more logging in Alaska’s Tongass Natio...