Republicans to privatize Tongass National Forest: Public Lands, Private profits. Mapping the grift.

The Republican scheme "transfers public lands could enrich wealthy developers while eliminating access for everyone else." -  Grist 

The Tongass National Forest in  Alaska  is the largest  U.S. National Forest  is 16.7 million acres - larger than 10 U.S. states! It is home to many species of endangered and rare flora and fauna. 

Biggest billionaire land grab ever

"The U.S. Forest Service wants to revive a massive timber sale that would clear-cut nearly 1,655 acres of old-growth habitat. These wild lands stretch across nearly 17 million acres in the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest. The Tongass stores more carbon per acre than almost any other forest on the planet. Cut it down, and that carbon doesn’t just disappear — it goes straight into an atmosphere that’s already breaking records." - Angela Fobbs

Tsongass National Park privatized for billionaires

Stop the billionaire land grab

Republicans want to "remove prohibitions on road construction and logging on nearly 59 million acres of national forest, arguing that the rule slowed economic development. A 30-day public comment period on the  formal proposal  starts once it is  published in the Federal Register . Instructions on  how to submit comments  are included in the proposal."

TakeAway: Stop the billionaire land grab.

Deepak
DemLabs

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