The Tongass is the largest national forest in the country, and that’s no small thing to trifle with. But trifle the Trump administration is doing, treating the Tongass, the U.S. Forest Service employees who work in the Tongass and the communities that live here as not worthy of being told about their future.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which takes its orders from the White House and which runs the Forest Service, announced three weeks…