An early look at Tongass National Forest management plan revisions intended to suit the Trump administration shows, as pledged, a focus on expanding timber and other natural resource development.
A 117-page documentreferred to as “Preliminary Draft Plan Content” was released Monday by the U.S. Forest Service. Among its extensive recommendations are expanding second-growth timber harvesting activity, allowing “a projected timber sale quantity increasing to 72 million board feet per year in the next decade,…