Vandalism On A Gigantic Scale - Tongass National Park
 

"President Trump will open up more than half of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to logging and other forms of development, according to a notice posted Wednesday, stripping protections that had safeguarded one of the world’s largest intact temperate rainforests for nearly two decades.

As of Thursday, it will be legal for logging companies to build roads and cut and remove timber throughout more than 9.3 million acres of forest — featuring old-growth stands of red and yellow cedar, Sitka spruce and Western hemlock. The relatively-pristine expanse is also home to plentiful salmon runs and imposing fjords. The decision, which will be published in the Federal Register, reverses protections President Bill Clinton put in place in 2001 and is one of the most sweeping public lands rollbacks Trump has enacted." WP

https://www.washingtonpost.com/clima...forest-alaska/

One of many one fingered salutes that the Mango Messiah will make as he exits the stage. :(

They won't get much done with winter setting in, even if the Trumpists try to skip existing time-consuming procedures. There will be time to reverse this.

'Trump administration ends protections for iconic gray wolf' AFP

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/tru...nic-gray-wolf/

Assholes.

"The Trump administration has called for oil and gas firms to pick spots where they want to drill in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as it races to open the pristine wilderness to development and lock in drilling rights before President-elect Joe Biden takes office."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/clima...rilling-trump/

More environmental vandalism.

Donald tRump now in full scorched earth mode.

Basically salting the earth on his way out. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...th-behind-him/