Alaska resource projects and landscapes are again in the crosshairs of a presidential election

By Alex DeMarban
Anchorage Daily News
September 29, 2024
Category: Forestry
Region: United States, US West

Major Alaska resource projects, and the land they could be built on, may be at stake in the presidential election. They include drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and elsewhere in Alaska, logging in the Tongass National Forest, and cutting a 200-mile road through Alaska wilderness to access the Ambler mining district… Trump could attempt to again repeal the Roadless Rule in Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to open up logging potential, undoing Biden’s reversal. But procedures and timelines may not leave much time for timber sales… More consequential for Alaska will be the next president’s position on climate change… If Harris wins, she’s expected to build on Biden policies that in Alaska support renewable energy and related efforts.

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