NYT Logging Industry

Oregon’s fate has always been intertwined with the forests that blanket the state. Now millions of trees are charred, and those who live from them face a future full of uncertainty.

The effort to open the Alaskan wilderness area, the nation’s largest national forest, has been in the works for about two years.

The administration says it will “repeal or replace” the rule that opened up more than half of Tongass National Forest to logging.