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The owners of the Gustavus Inn sold their inn after a run of 41 years. It’s been on sale for a couple of years, but the Hoonah Indian Association recently

By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. In October, following Trump’s direct intervention and under pressure from Alaska state officials, the administration rescinded the ‘roadless rule’ in the Tongass National Forests, thus clearing the way to expand access of logging, mining, and other extractive industries. The Trump administration has rolled back environmental protections, from the ...

Earthjustice and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) filed the lawsuit (pdf) in the U.S. District Court in Alaska on behalf of regional tribes, businesses, and conservation groups. The complaint notes that the largest national forest, located in Southeast Alaska, “is central to the life ways of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian people who have lived in and depended on the forest since time immemorial.” The U.S. Forest Service’s move to exempt the forest from the Roadless Rule, ...

For Immediate Release, December 23, 2020 Contact: Robert Starbard, Hoonah Indian Association, robert.starbard@hiatribe.org Lee Wallace, Organized Village of Saxman, (907) 617-3128, iragovt@kpunet.net| Linda Behnken, Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association, (907) 738-3615 Hunter McIntosh, The Boat Company, hunter@theboatcompany.com Dan Blanchard, Uncruise, danb@uncruise.com Sally Schlichting, Southeast Alaska Conservation Council (SEACC), (907) 957-3488, sally@seacc.or...

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Green groups sue over Trump bid to open Alaskas Tongass forest to logging Rebecca Beitsch © iStock tongass national forest us department of agriculture us forest service 2001 roadless rule trout flora fauna wildlife trump clinton administration conservation logging timber old-growth trees A coalition of environmental groups is suing the Trump administration after it lifted protections for Alaskas Tongass National Forest, expanding logging in the nations largest old growth for...