{"id":12160,"date":"2018-09-18t09:41:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-18t09:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dpetrov.2create.studio\/planet\/wordpress\/tongass-timber-and-the-roadless-rule\/"},"modified":"2018-09-18t09:41:15","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18t09:41:15","slug":"alaska-timber-roadless-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/alaska-timber-roadless-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"tongass timber and the roadless rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script id=\"asp-embed-script\" data-zindex=\"1000000\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/spark.adobe.com\/page-embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>editor&#8217;s note: story four in our <a href=\"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/content\/alaska-series-2018\">stories of alaska<\/a> series focuses on the timber industry \u2014 one part of the resource-rich puzzle that is alaska \u2014 and the yearslong&nbsp;debate over the&nbsp;&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fs.fed.us\/emc\/nepa\/roadless\/2001roadlessrulefr.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">roadless area conservation<\/a>&#8221; rule, put in place by the usda in 2001, which disallows construction of any new road system in national forest land and effectively makes it impossible for companies to extract new resources that aren&#8217;t already accessible. click the story below to read more about the arguments for and against exemptions to the rule for alaska.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asp-embed-link\" href=\"https:\/\/spark.adobe.com\/page\/2ngccaawb0yjf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tongass timber and the roadless rule\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/spark.adobe.com\/page\/2ngccaawb0yjf\/embed.jpg?buster=1533912775768\" style=\"width:100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>story four in our stories of alaska series&nbsp;focuses on the timber industry \u2014 one part of the resource-rich puzzle that is alaska \u2014 and the yearslong&nbsp;debate over the&nbsp;&#8220;roadless area conservation&#8221; rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4916],"tags":[274,558,547,4076,295,591,3764],"storyfest_categories":[],"class_list":["post-12160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate","tag-alaska","tag-forests","tag-lindblad-expeditions","tag-logging","tag-natural-resources-management","tag-storyfest","tag-storyfest-winner"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- this site is optimized with the yoast seo plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>tongass timber and the roadless rule - planet forward<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/tongass-timber-and-the-roadless-rule\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_us\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"tongass timber and the roadless rule - planet forward\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"story four in our stories of alaska series&nbsp;focuses on the timber industry \u2014 one part of the resource-rich puzzle that is alaska \u2014 and the yearslong&nbsp;debate over the&nbsp;&quot;roadless area conservation&quot; 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