Climate group missing the voices of most Vermonters samessenger.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from samessenger.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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, finalized just days before President Donald Trump lost reelection to President-elect Joe Biden, would open up more than nine million acres of the Tongass with its centuries-old trees that provide crucial carbon sequestration to logging and roadbuilding.
Alaskan tribes, activists and businesses sue to save America s biggest national forest msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - A large coalition of Southeast Alaska Native Tribes and communities, small businesses, and conservation organizations has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for exempting the Tongass National Forest from the federal Roadless Rule.
Earthjustice and the Natural Resources Defense Council filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Juneau on behalf of the Organized Villages of Kake, Saxman, the Hoonah Indian Association, the Ketchikan Indian Community, the Klawock Cooperative Association, the Women s Earth and Climate Action Network, the Boat Company, Uncruise, Alaska Longline Fishermen s Association, Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, Natural Resources Defense Council, Alaska Rainforest Defenders, Alaska Wilderness League, Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club, Defenders of Wildlife, National Audubon Society, Wilderness Society, Greenpeace, Inc. the National Wildlife Federation and Environment America.