Judge puts short-term hold on Trump's plans to log old-growth in Tongass NF

A federal judge on Monday temporarily halted the Trump administration’s plans to open up thousands of acres in the nation's largest national forest to logging. 

The decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska placed a preliminary injunction on the logging of 42,500 acres of temperate rainforest in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. It comes days before the administration was set to begin reviewing bids and offering contracts for the logging of old-growth timber in the forest.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/462685-judge-temporarily-blocks-logging-in-nations-largest-national-forest