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Victory for the Tongass Rainforest

By Dominick A. DellaSala / On March 11th, 2011
On March 7, a federal judge in Anchorage ruled in favor of the Organized Village of Kake and conservation groups in reinstating the roadless rule on the 7 million hectare (17 million acre) Tongass National Forest. The judge’s ruling strikes down the 2003 Bush Administration’s decision to “temporarily” exempt the Tongass from the national roadless rule that protects nearly 24 million hectares (60 million acres) of some of the nation’s wildest areas.
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Obama's new forest rules: Read the fine print

By Dominick A. DellaSala / On February 22nd, 2011
This post was written by Dominick A. DellaSala, chief scientist and president, and Randi Spivak, vice president of Government Affairs at the Ashland-based Geos Institute. This post was excerpted from OregonLive.com.
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In the Cross-Hairs Again: Clayoquot Sound’s Endangered Temperate Rainforest

By [node:field_contributor] / On February 9th, 2011
Canada’s Clayoquot Sound is no stranger to logging controversies. In the 1990s, thousands turned out to protect its verdant rainforests from logging during forest blockades. While the Sound’s outstanding ecosystems have been recognized as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve—a designation that carries no legal protections—logging continues to threaten its few remaining intact rainforests.

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