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Petersburg asembly passes on Tongass Roadless exemption defense
Posted by Joe Viechnicki | Apr 5, 2021
A sign on Mitkof Highway south of Petersburg (Joe Viechnicki/KFSK)
Petersburg’s borough assembly Monday was not interested in chipping in money to defend a Tongass National Forest exemption from the Clinton-era Roadless Rule. It didn’t even come up for debate or a vote for that matter.
The Trump administration last year granted a Tongass exemption to the nationwide rule that prohibits new logging and forest roads on unroaded parts of the national forest system. It was something requested by multiple Alaska governors.
At a borough assembly meeting Monday, local resident Eric Lee testified in favor of keeping roadless prohibitions for the Tongass and against an exemption for the nearly 17 million acre forest.