Trump Pushes to Open the World’s Largest Remaining Temperate Rainforest to Logging and Mining
“Politicians have tussled for years over the fate of the Tongass National Forest, a massive stretch of southeastern Alaska replete with old-growth spruce, hemlock and cedar, rivers running with salmon, and dramatic fjords,” according to the Washington Post.
“President Bill Clinton put more than half of it off limits to logging just days before leaving office in 2001, when he barred the construction of roads in 58.5 million acres of undeveloped national forest across the country. President George W. Bush sought to reverse that policy, holding a handful of timber sales in the Tongass before a federal judge reinstated the Clinton rule.”
"If this is a global tipping point on climate change, we have a gang of right-wing populists jumping up and down on the scales."
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.He is throwing so many things out there I can't keep up. Roads and logging in the Tongass NF. Eliminating parts or all of the Endangered Species Act. Pardon people who break the law while building his wall. Just now I hear of deporting migrant children here for medical care. It never ends.
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Where are the so called sane republicans. Nikki Haley, John Kasich, or Mitt. All good Christians.
All I hear is crickets. That is until global warming kills the crickets.
So upset just hearing this on MSNBC. What a piece of shit he is! I'll be protesting in the near future myself -joined 3 action groups.
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