According to an Alaska Public Media 6/15/16 article on the Young/Murkowski timber industry bills, Senator Murkowski said a shift to logging new growth “is where we need to go.” This suggests that logging old growth should cease, and for good reason. So, how about she insert a rider on her rider, that while the FS does an inventory on the amount of young growth on the Tongass, that logging of old growth will cease? 

In reality the so-called transition is a farce. The FS continues to plan massive old growth timber sales, on landscapes already nuked from decades of logging, then throws in a little young growth so they can claim they are making a PC "transition" to second growth. 

*Fact is, very little of the old growth that remains is economical to log. *Two-thirds of the Tongass is rocks and ice or unproductive forest. 
*SE Alaska has about one million, mostly forested acres in non-federal hands: Native corporations, University, Mental Health Trust and the State - all timber exporters.