Two Builders Oppose Alaskan Forest Roads

Building companies KB Home and Hayward Lumber, as well as office supply chain Staples Inc. -- all major consumers of wood products -- have lined up with environmental groups trying to protect Alaskan forests.

The three companies have sent letters to the Forest Service opposing a proposal that would exempt Alaska’s Tongass and Chugach national forests from a nationwide prohibition against road building in national forests.

All three companies have worked with environmental groups to establish policies that reduce their consumption of so-called virgin forests such as the Tongass, the nation’s largest national forest.

From Associated Press