Administration Approves First Roadless Logging Contract In Alaska's Tongass National Forest

This week, the Obama administration approved the sale of timber in a roadless national forest in Alaska. 

According to the Wilderness Society:

American taxpayers have not only watched as the Tongass has been picked apart by road building and logging, they've paid for the privilege. The tab extends beyond $750 million over 20 years. In a single year alone, the Forest Service spent $36 million on the Tongass timber program and got back in revenues only $1 million.

LINK (Via: The Huffington Post)

Comments

[AC]

Don't know whether to applaud or boo... given the previous post and this post... do they cancel each out or what?

[BigESlice]

It seems the Wilderness Society is reaching for work, doesn't it. I mean, they're the Wilderness Society, not the National Forest Society, and the Tongass is a national forest, right? I also think it's funny that as a non-profit organization they're criticizing the government for not making money off their logging practices. And I don't get the movie's stance against clearcutting. If the moviemaker checked his datebook, he'd realize that it's not 1985 anymore. Clearcutting is a thing of the past.