https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-dispute-trump-administrations-rationale-for-alaska-logging/

The Trump administration says the Tongass National Forest is America’s best carbon warehouse—so it’s fine to increase logging there.

The Forest Service last week released a draft environmental impact statement for building new roads through the Tongass, a precondition for feeding more old-growth trees into southeastern Alaska’s struggling timber mills. Every 21st-century president has fought over whether to expand or curtail logging in the massive forest. Trump has gone the furthest; his Forest Service last week said the time had come for a final resolution and recommended opening almost the entire area to development.