Old Growth Logging in the Tongass, Steve Pearce En Bloc Vote, and FY27 Budget Hearings - Public Lands News (April 20 - May 1)

This Friday, we're covering:

1. Doug Burgum defends the Fiscal Year 2027 Budget for the Department of the Interior before Congress

2. Senator Martin Heinrich questions Brooke Rollins on the Forest Service Reorganization

3. Republicans package Steve Pearce, nominated to be the next director of the Bureau of Land Management, in an en bloc vote with 49 other nominations ft. Michael Carroll, Director of BLM Campaigns for the Wilderness Society (https://www.wilderness.org/)

4. Forest Service opens a 45-day comment period for an old-growth logging plan in the Tongass National Forest. Nathan Newcomer from the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council (https://seacc.org/)

Call the U.S. Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121

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