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>"Alaska's Tongass National Forest is the world's largest intact temperate forest. Trump plans to open it up for logging but the tribes living there are ta..." All this is now under threat from the United States Forest Service under the Trump administration, which plans to remove protections from the forest by the fall to allow new roads to be built in pristine stretches that have never seen industrial development, and begin logging the Tongass’ old growth.  In response, the tribes that live there are making a last-ditch stand to protect their cultural homelands, engineering a new type of plan to recognize the relationship between the forest and the people who’ve lived in it for millennia. If successful, they could help lay the groundwork for other Indigenous efforts to protect functioning cultural landscapes ― all while helping the nation tackle climate change.  [https://m.huffingtonpost.in/entry/tongass-national-forest-logging-alaska_n_5f4f5a3cc5b69eb5c0367e81?ri18n=true](https://m.huffingtonpost.in/entry/tongass-national-forest-logging-alaska_n_5f4f5a3cc5b69eb5c0367e81?ri18n=true)
>"Alaska's Tongass National Forest is the world's largest intact temperate forest. Trump plans to open it up for logging but the tribes living there are ta..." All this is now under threat from the United States Forest Service under the Trump administration, which plans to remove protections from the forest by the fall to allow new roads to be built in pristine stretches that have never seen industrial development, and begin logging the Tongass’ old growth.  In response, the tribes that live there are making a last-ditch stand to protect their cultural homelands, engineering a new type of plan to recognize the relationship between the forest and the people who’ve lived in it for millennia. If successful, they could help lay the groundwork for other Indigenous efforts to protect functioning cultural landscapes ― all while helping the nation tackle climate change.  [https://m.huffingtonpost.in/entry/tongass-national-forest-logging-alaska_n_5f4f5a3cc5b69eb5c0367e81?ri18n=true](https://m.huffingtonpost.in/entry/tongass-national-forest-logging-alaska_n_5f4f5a3cc5b69eb5c0367e81?ri18n=true)
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