Monday, March 28, 2016

Court Leaves Rules in Place that Protect Tongass Rainforest Wildlands from Damaging Logging, Road Construction

<> Court Leaves Rules in Place that Protect Tongass Rainforest Wildlands from Damaging Logging, Road Construction - The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear a last-ditch effort by the State of Alaska to exempt America's largest national forest from a national rule protecting undeveloped, road-free national forest areas from logging and road construction -- the State sought to overturn a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that kept the Roadless Area Conservation Rule in effect in the vast Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska -- a federal District Court in Alaska that the Bush administration improperly exempted the Tongass from that landmark conservation measure.