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Trump Admin Targets Wilderness Protections | Philadelphia News
The Trump administration is poised to roll back a 25-year-old rule protecting 45 million acres of national forest wilderness, including 9 million in Alaska’s Tongass — the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest — opening it up for logging and road building. Citing improved forest health and wildfire prevention, the Forest Service claims this will boost economic development and firefighter access. But environmentalists and scientists warn it could devastate ecosystems, threaten water supplies, and ironically increase fire risk — since 85% of wildfires stem from human activity. Critics…
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