Tongass plan drafts timeline for transition to young-growth harvest

The U.S. Forest Service has released a new plan for managing timber lands on the Tongass National Forest in Southeast. It puts a timeline on the transition from young- to old-growth logging and it attempts to make it easier to develop hydro projects on forest land.
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Remains of a Tongass clear-cut and logging road north of Ketchikan. New growth in parts of the forest could be cut to jump-start a modern timber industry, a report says. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlask