No bulldozing the Tongass

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Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland Jan 12, 2018

Jan 12, 2018

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                <h1>No bulldozing the Tongass</h1>
                <h2><p>The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has knocked down an attempt by the state of Alaska and the Alaska Forest Association to do more logging and put roads into roadless areas of the Tongass National Forest, the Alaska Dispatch News reports. A federal roadless rule, which includes restrictions</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
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            <p>The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has knocked down an attempt by the state of Alaska and the Alaska Forest Association to do more logging and put roads into roadless areas of the Tongass National Forest,<a href="http://www.adn.com/article/20150729/alaska-challenge-tongass-roadless-rule-gets-shot-down-9th-circuit?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org"> the Alaska Dispatch News reports</a>. A federal roadless rule, which includes restrictions on logging, dates back to the Clinton administration, but the Bush administration later came up with an exemption for the Tongass. The Circuit Court judges divided 6-to-5 on the case: Something more for U.S. Supreme Court watchers to follow soon?</p>
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The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has knocked down an attempt by the state of Alaska and the Alaska Forest Association to do more logging and put roads into roadless areas of the Tongass National Forest, the Alaska Dispatch News reports. A federal roadless rule, which includes restrictions on logging, dates back to the Clinton administration, but the Bush administration later came up with an exemption for the Tongass. The Circuit Court judges divided 6-to-5 on the case: Something more for U.S. Supreme Court watchers to follow soon?

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi