{"id":998,"date":"2003-12-24T10:23:19","date_gmt":"2003-12-24T15:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/998.html"},"modified":"2003-12-24T10:23:19","modified_gmt":"2003-12-24T15:23:19","slug":"4-calling-birds-3-french-hens-2-turtle-doves-and-logging-rights-to-alaskas-tongass-national-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/4-calling-birds-3-french-hens-2-turtle-doves-and-logging-rights-to-alaskas-tongass-national-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Calling Birds, 3 French Hens, 2 Turtle Doves, and logging rights to Alaska&#8217;s Tongass National Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ordinarily, the White House will announce controversial news late on Friday so as to avoid negative media attention. Using the same logic, however, Christmas Eve is even better than a Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The administration announced yesterday that it would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A26001-2003Dec23.html\">open up 300,000 acres of Alaska&#8217;s Tongass National Forest<\/a> for logging and other development. The timing of the announcement, which will probably go largely unnoticed because of the holiday, would have likely sparked a major controversy were it unveiled, say, two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Tongass is the nation&#8217;s largest national forest and one of our last old-growth forests. Business interests have targeted it for many years now, but the Clinton administration had protected the area from development. The Bush administration will now reverse those protections.<\/p>\n<p>Amy Mall of the Natural Resources Defense Council, told the Washington Post the administration&#8217;s new policy would open to development &#8220;the most valuable habitat from one of our most important forests and one of the most ancient forests worldwide.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ordinarily, the White House will announce controversial news late on Friday so as to avoid negative media attention. Using the same logic, however, Christmas Eve is even better than a Friday. The administration announced yesterday that it would open up 300,000 acres of Alaska&#8217;s Tongass National Forest for logging and other development. The timing of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}