WASHINGTON — A bill to provide the secretary of agriculture with the authority to sell timber from U.S. Forest Service lands in Alaska was introduced in the U.S. House last week by Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska.
Young described the bill as an attempt to find a “short-term solution” to the ban on clearcutting handed down recently by Judge James A. von der Heydt of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court.
In his bill (H.R. 11508), Young…
