Misty trees on Kupreanof Island. Photo: Colin Arisman
According to the April 1, 2020, Tongass National Forest Schedule of Proposed Actions (SOPA), the Central Tongass Project (CTP) has been put “on hold” for an undetermined length of time.
This new status falls on the heels of the recent federal court win by Alaska Rainforest Defenders and seven other plaintiff groups for the Prince of Wales Landscape Level Analysis (POWLLA). The Central Tongass Project employed a similarly vague and hypothetical “condition-based analysis’ as the fatally flawed POWLLA. The timber extraction component of both projects would have removed vast quantities of intact, old-growth habitat in their project areas.