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       Re: Species Population Biomass effects on the Biosphere
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: October 22, 2017, 4:11 pm
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       [center]Mist hangs over the Tongass temperate rain forest in
       Alaska. The Bush administration
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       />tried to undermine the Roadless Rule by exempting the Tongass
       National Forest from the rule. LEEPRINCE / SHUTTERSTOCK[/center]
       [center]EARTHJUSTICE
  HTML http://www.pic4ever.com/images/earthhug.gifWINS
       16-YEAR-LONG
       BATTLE TO PROTECT 50 MILLION ACRES OF FORESTS
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       By Jessica A. Knoblauch | Thursday, September 28, 2017
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       width=640]
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       [center]Tom Waldo, one of the legal architects of Earthjustice's
       Roadless Rule strategy, walks through a field of fireweed near
       Juneau, Alaska. MICHAEL PENN FOR EARTHJUSTICE[/center]
       SNIPPET:
       A decades-long fight over a landmark rule protecting wild
       forests nationwide took another successful–and possibly
       final–turn last week after a U.S. district court threw out a
       last-ditch attack by the state of Alaska against the Roadless
       Rule.
       Adopted in the closing days of the Clinton administration, the
       Roadless Rule prohibits most logging and road construction in
       roadless areas of national forests. These lands, today equaling
       about 50 million acres or about the size of Nebraska, are some
       of the wildest places left in America.
       Upon its passage, the rule was overwhelmingly popular with the
       American people, including those who like to hike, camp, fish
       and recreate among the trees in wild, unmarred areas. The Forest
       Service also liked the rule, since, at the time, the agency had
       a multibillion-dollar backlog on maintenance for more than
       400,000 miles of existing roads, and it wasn’t eager to add even
       more to its workload.
       Yet, despite its popularity, state political leaders with ties
       to the logging and timber industries hated the new rule. Even
       before President Clinton left office, they began their attack.
       The Bush administration
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       />which took office just eight days later, failed to come to the
       rule’s defense.
       “It created this vacuum,” says Earthjustice attorney Tom Waldo,
       one of the legal architects of the organization’s Roadless Rule
       strategy. “So Earthjustice stepped in.”
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       [center]A roadless area in the North Carolina National Forest.
       MARK VAN DYKE[/center]
       Full story:
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