The proposal would affect 9.3 million acres of forest, including vast areas of old growth, that Bill Clinton originally protected in 2001.
June 11, 2021
The Biden administration said Friday that it would “repeal or replace” a rule allowing roads and other types of development in more than half of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, reviving 20-year-old protections President Donald Trump had stripped three months before leaving office.
Here's what President Biden is doing to unwind Donald Trump's environmental legacy
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Paradise Valley in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska in 2011. (Karen Dillman/USDA Forest Service)