Take a guided snowmobile tour through Truckee's network of logging roads, which cover about 650sq miles, with Eagle Ridge Snowmobile.
Meanwhile, new logging roads are bringing outsiders and loggers into remote areas, and forest elephants are being killed for bushmeat as well as ivory.
But logging roads remain long after loggers have moved on.
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In December, Greenpeace pulled the trigger, claiming it had proof from GPS-tagged video and pictures that one of the coalition industry members, Resolute Forest Products, was building logging roads in areas forbidden by the agreement.
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Most loggers harvest when the land is frozen, but a run of mild winters has melted the logging roads and made it impossible to harvest the wood without scarring the land which, in turn, gives environmentalists more cause for complaint.
It requires engagement with local communities, protecting them from the negative impacts of logging (i.e. roads and bridges damaged, water polluted, etc.) and encouraging active hiring of local service providers, local technicians, and local labor.
In the core areas in these parks, no human exploitation is allowed, no roads or construction, no hunting, fishing, mining, logging, grazing or even grass cutting.
Many of Mr Murkowski's own proposals for boosting the state economy, such as a plan to increase logging in the Tongass National Forest, require the federal Forest Service to spend millions building new roads.
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However, both are now seriously threatened by deforestation and invasive practices, including intensive mining and logging, extensive livestock activity, water pollution, degradation of headwaters, unregulated processes of urban settlement, construction of roads, waterways and dams, drainage and diversion of rivers, burning of forests and illegal fishing and trade in wildlife.
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