The Biden administration on Friday is expected to propose a rule that aims to reinstate the ban on roads in about half of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest that some state leaders say will hurt economic growth, according to a report.
that some state leaders say will hurt economic growth, according to a report.
Many of the roadless areas are wildlife habitats, ecosystems and natural areas like old-growth temperate rainforests, ice fields and glaciers, and islands facing the open Pacific Ocean"that exist nowhere else in the National Forest system," according to the Forest Service. In June, Sens. Senators Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Rep. Don Young, Republicans, released a statement critical of Biden's move and said a one-size-fits-all Roadless Rule"has restricted access needed for tourism, recreation, timber, mining, transportation, and the development of renewable energy."
Gov. Mike Dunleavy, the Republican from the state, told the Post that the Trump administration had been lobbied by a congressional delegation from the state to exempt Alaska from the rule.
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