Federal judge bars Trump administration's
plan to open Alaskan forest for development
Washington Times,
by
Bailey Vogt
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
9/24/2019 2:32:53 PM
The Trump administration’s plan to allow logging in more than 40,000 acres of an Alaskan national forest was put on hold by a federal judge Monday.The U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska issued a preliminary injunction blocking the development of 42,500 acres of the Tongass National Forest for logging. The court said: “Plaintiffs have demonstrated that they are very likely to suffer irreparable harm in the absence of preliminary injunctive relief.”The rulings come the day before the Trump administration would have begun reviewing logging bids and offering contracts to clear out parts of the nation’s largest temperate
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Highlander 9/24/2019 2:47:17 PM (No. 188290)
Tree-huggers. Always tree-huggers getting in the way of prosperity.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 9/24/2019 2:50:27 PM (No. 188297)
California is a good steward of our forests and saving the trees, and that’s why we have had catastrophic forests fires burning down complete towns and destroying thousands of homes costing billions of dollars. Should work in Alaska.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
HPmatt 9/24/2019 2:51:02 PM (No. 188300)
Ketchikan is about 2 linear square miles stapled on to 5,000 sq miles of Tsongas forest on several ‘islands’. About 200 yards of water across from it is Gravina island - about 10 square miles of flat land. This is where Alaskans wanted US taxpayers to spend $400 million for ‘bridge to nowhere’. I think the politician families had bought the land to develop it. Tourism - cruise ships - are major seasonal industry, plus some fishing boats, but town is landlocked by Federal Forests that own 50,000 square miles around it. A local house costs like $500,000 because there is only so much land.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
iraengneer 9/24/2019 2:53:16 PM (No. 188305)
As expected, the idiot ruling was by an idiot judge appointed by Buraq Hussein Soetoro the Accursed Manchurian Candidate, one Sharon Gleason. Loathsome appointment confirmed in 2011 by a Senate vote of 87-8. Was YOUR Republicrat Senator one of those lousy bums?
FIRE this idiot haggling, but fire the traitorous Senators who allowed this travesty in the first place!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 9/24/2019 2:54:50 PM (No. 188311)
Judges cannot stop the Executive Branch from doing what Congress allowed them to do, which is to manage said wilderness areas.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 9/24/2019 3:03:33 PM (No. 188330)
The INTENDED PURPOSE of a National Forest is for logging. That is WHY they were created, to provide a long term sustained forest which would be lumbered, regrown and lumbered again, forever.
This is literally against the intent of the creation of National Forests. They were NOT for camping, they were NOT for hunting, they were not for hiking, they were for LOGGING. All the other things (hiking, hunting, camping, etc) are nice side effects while the trees are maturing for their actual purpose --- to become lumber and to build things.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
AmericaYes 9/24/2019 3:45:11 PM (No. 188382)
Obama judge
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Cindiana 9/24/2019 4:09:40 PM (No. 188401)
We need them for our fab new paper straws.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
lakerman1 9/24/2019 4:47:17 PM (No. 188448)
The appointment of federal judges is an imperfect process.
President Trump nominated Susan Paradise Baxter for Western Pennsylvania federal district court judge. And she was confirmed.
Baxter was all-in for Hillary in 2008. 2016. (no pun intended - well, maybe a little bit intended.)
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bighambone 9/24/2019 5:06:09 PM (No. 188471)
Another Obama Judge swings into action!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 9/24/2019 5:19:25 PM (No. 188481)
Sounds like a lot of acreage until you realize that the Tongass National Forest is 17 million acres. In other words, the Administration proposes to log less than 1% of the total acreage of the national forest.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
chance_232 9/24/2019 6:30:13 PM (No. 188539)
Lets see....Alaska covers 663267 square miles. The proposed logging will occur in aprox 67 sq miles.
And, I'll bet that the logging company is required to plant replacements.
Im sick of environmentalists blocking any development and judges going along with them.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 9/24/2019 8:46:37 PM (No. 188623)
Showing their ignorance again. Logging would remove the underbrush and the older trees that might not be the healthiest. It just shows me that they not only do not want healthy forests, they want a forest that is susceptible to burning down as well. Stupid judges, always trust them to go with stupid rather than actual experts.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
anniebc 9/25/2019 12:55:18 AM (No. 188732)
Is there an emergency review from a higher court when this happens? If not, that should be the rule. That would make everyone tire of this nonsense from one bossy judge.
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Well, millennials, how do you plan on making paper straws ? We created plastic straws to stop the logging. See, they don't know everything.
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