BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Tuesday abruptly dropped its nascent plan to protect old-growth forests after getting pushback from Republicans and the timber industry.

The Biden administration is dropping its efforts to issue a policy to protect old-growth ... late Tuesday, Forest Service ...

It will bulldoze through old-growth forest and remove thousands of acres of mature pine trees. The plan is moving forward despite its incongruence with President Biden’s pledge to protect old-growth ...

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The plan would allow commercial logging on more than 772,000 acres of public lands, including mature and old-growth trees — a 66% increase from the current forest plan. “A sizeable area of our beloved ...