PRESIDENT TRUMP OPENS TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST TO LOGGING

Highlights

• According to a notice posted on Wednesday, the United States President Donald Trump has decided to strip protections from Alaska’s Tongass National Forest in order to open it to logging and other forms of development

• Tongass National Forest is one of the world’s largest intact rainforests and was safeguarded for nearly two decades after President Clinton decided to protect it in the year....