“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."

[slate.com]