A new report shows the Forest Service's Tongass National Forest budget isn't living up the agency's 2010 promise to transition out of old-growth logging in the nation's largest national forest. The Tongass, in Southeast Alaska, is part of the largest swath of temperate rainforest remaining in the world. Instead of the promised transition, the Forest Service released the largest old-growth timber sale in a decade earlier this year.
By Beth Peluso
November 18, 2014
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