Trump administration misused grant program in rush to open Tongass NF to development: watchdog

The Trump administration wrongly tweaked a grant process when forwarding $2 million in funds to the state of Alaska as officials pushed to open the state’s Tongass National Forest up to more logging, a government watchdog found.

In September of last year, the U.S. Forest Service gave $2 million to Alaska to help it prepare an environmental analysis of proposed logging in one of the nation’s largest old-growth forests.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/530907-trump-wrongly-awarded-alaska-grant-in-bid-to-open-tongass-forest-to