Donald Trump is opening up the largest ancient old-growth forest in the U.S. to logging interests, part of the Trump administration’s goal to end protections on 35 million acres of public lands.
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In US news and current events today, the Trump admin is stripping protections from a national forest to make it available for logging and other commercial interests.

Alaska’s Tongass National Forest is the largest ancient, old-growth forest in the U.S. and one of the world's largest and last intact temperate rain forests. The Tongass National Forest is also a natural ‘carbon sink’ that absorbs approx 8% of carbon emissions from the mainland U.S.

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