“The only scenario where it works to convert these into timber production is unfortunately the one we have, where the Forest Service bears a lot of the cost for them, for the road network and essentially subsidizes the timber production in these remote areas.”

He said that aspect of the issue even brought fiscally conservative groups like Taxpayers For Common Sense, which came out this year against a separate plan to specifically exempt Alaska’s Tongass National Forest from the rule.

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