SEACC took the U.S. Forest Service to court in 2019 over its controversial plan to clear cut about 23,000 acres of old growth forest on Prince of Wales Island. Timber industry groups at the time said the plan was key to keeping Southeast Alaska’s last mills supplied and running.
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The U.S. Forest Service argues in court that throwing out the largest Tongass timber sale in decades will do irreparable harm to Southeast’s logging industry. Environmentalists say the federal agency needs to start from scratch after the judge found the environmental review process to be flawed.
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Conservationists say the U.S. Forest Service didn’t give enough details of which 23,269 acres of old growth would be logged over 15 years. A federal judge has temporarily halted logging and will rule whether the largest Tongass timber sale in 30 years may proceed.
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The U.S. Supreme Court will not take up a case that could have expanded logging in Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. It’s the final step in one legal battle involving what’s called the Roadless Rule.
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