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Biden Bans Roads and Logging in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest

The New York Times · Lisa Friedman · last updated

The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it has banned logging and road-building on about nine million acres of the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska, aiming to settle a two-decade battle over the fate of North America’s largest temperate rainforest.

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