Hoonah Indian Association and Alaska Communications to provide gigabit internet service in Hoonah and Gustavus
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With Protections Restored for Alaska s Tongass, What s Next?
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By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans.
In October, following Trump’s direct intervention and under pressure from Alaska state officials, the administration rescinded the ‘roadless rule’ in the Tongass National Forests, thus clearing the way to expand access of logging, mining, and other extractive industries.
The Trump administration has rolled back environmental protections, from the over touted yet actually modest recent levels of protection other administrations. have pursued.
Trump’s policies have not proceeded unopposed. Last Wednesday, Reuters reported:
A coalition of Alaska Native tribes and environmentalists filed suit on Wednesday challenging a new Trump administration policy that opens vast swaths of the largest U.S. national forest to logging, mining and other commercial development.
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