A New Plan For Alaska Forest

"Eighteen years after the U.S. Forest Service proposed protecting parts of Alaska's Chugach National Forest as wilderness areas, the agency on Friday issued a plan for establishing such zones. The plan recommends that Congress designate as wilderness 1.4 million acres of the 5.5 million-acre Chugach, the second-largest U.S. national forest... Environmentalists were unhappy that key areas of interest...were omitted from the wilderness recommendation. And they criticized the decision to reduce the wilderness area from the 1.6 million acres proposed by the Reagan administration in 1984."