Mass deletion and alteration of federal websites includes Alaska reports and data

By Mark Sabbatini
The Juneau Empire
February 3, 2025
Category: Carbon, Climate & Bioenergy
Region: United States, US West

The U.S. Forest Service’s “Sustainability and Climate” webpage is gone, as are the news sections for the homepages of Alaska’s National Forests and the Tongass National Forest. Likewise for a vast amount of federal government weather, disaster assistance, fisheries, health, education and other reports …“More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon,” The New York Times reported Sunday morning. The mass removal is occurring “as federal agencies rush to heed President Trump’s orders targeting diversity initiatives and ‘gender ideology.’” …The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the Forest Service, has ordered all websites to be taken down that document or reference climate change. …The Forest Service’s “Sustainability and Climate” website, for instance, now displays only the text “You are not authorized to access this page.”

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