McClatchy: For decades, conservationists, the U.S. Forest Service, tribes, Native corporations and the people who live in the Tongass National Forest have warred over how to manage the vast temperate rain forest that covers most of southeast Alaska.
The fight resurfaces in Washington this week, as the Native corporation Sealaska makes a case to a Senate committee that it should be able to pick new acreage outside of the original land grants it never took ownership of.
The company's choices are controversial,......
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Congress probes land deal in Alaska’s Tongass forest
Posted by McClatchy: Erika Bolstad on May 23rd, 2011
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