POLITICSBiden reverses Trump order on large-scale logging.
LUMBER prices are to the moon and the idiot shuts down logging!
The Biden administration is ending large-scale, old-growth timber sales on the nation's largest national forest and will instead focus on forest restoration, recreation and other non-commercial uses.
Thursday's announcement by the U.S. Forest Service reverses a Trump administration decision to lift restrictions on logging and road-building in Alaska's Tongass National Forest. The temperate rainforest provides habitat for wolves, bears and salmon.
The Agriculture Department also will take steps to restore the so-called Roadless Rule there. The 2001 rule prohibits road construction and timber harvests with limited exceptions on about one-third of national forest land.
The Trump administration moved last year to exempt the Tongass, winning praise from Alaska's Republican leaders.
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