Federal Court Halts Timber Suit In Alaska’s Tongass National Forest
In a victory for old-growth forests on public land, a federal judge in Alaska has thrown out a lawsuit filed by a timber industry coalition which would have led to additional logging of old-growth areas in the Tongass National Forest, a 1,000-mile arc of temperate rainforest along Alaska’s southeast coast containing some of the most intact, oxygen-generating and climate-regualting forest on the planet.
