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Center for Biological Diversity: JUNEAU, Alaska (Áakʼw Ḵwáan Territory)— A broad coalition of Alaska Native Tribes, commercial fishers, small tourism businesses, conservation groups and other forest advocates are seeking to defend the 2023 reinstatement of Roadless Rule protections across the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska by intervening today in legal challenges opposing the rule.

Forest advocates are seeking to defend the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska by intervening in several legal challenges.

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Washington, D.C. (KINY) - Alaska Wilderness League was among six groups that filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court challenging the Biden administration’s approval of ConocoPhillips’ Willow oil and gas project in Alaska’s Arctic.

Groups objected in U.S. District Court today to a rule allowing oil and gas companies to harass vulnerable Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears.

The administration has finalized its reversal of a Trump-era rule that gutted protections across 9 million acres of Alaskas Tongass National Forest.

In a win for communities and wildlife, the U.S. Forest Service reinstated Roadless Rule protections for the Tongass rainforest in SE Alaska.

The rule repeals a Trump administration decision that stripped safeguards for the southeastern Alaska rainforest.

Center for Biological Diversity: JUNEAU, Alaska (Áakʼw Ḵwáan Territory)— In a win for Southeast Alaska communities, wildlife and the climate, the U.S. Forest Service today reinstated Roadless Rule protections across the Tongass rainforest in Southeast Alaska.