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“Conservationists say the future the country’s largest national forest could be undercut by flawed assumptions about the economics of turning trees into logwood. As the US Forest Service makes court-ordered revisions to its development plans for the Tongass National Forest, the Wilderness Society has issued an analysis that counters the agency’s rosier projections for the value of lumber culled from the 17-million acre expanse in Southeast Alaska. The Tongass harbors the world’s largest temperate rainforest and 19 wilderness areas.” (04/02/07)