Trump Administration Moves To Expand Development In Alaska's Tongass National Forest
For the last two years, the administration has been working to lift the rule prohibiting development in the Tongass, the country's largest national forest.
Updated at 7:06 p.m. ET
The Trump administration has cleared the way to open the country's largest national forest to more development and logging.
In a revised environmental impact study made public on Friday, the Department of Agriculture recommends granting a "full exemption" for the Tongass National Forest, which covers some 25,000 square miles in southeastern Alaska.
The forest is currently protected by the , a
