Associated Press: A federal judge has thrown out an industry lawsuit that could have led to more logging and road building in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, the nation’s largest federal forest. The ruling by U.S. District Judge John Bates dismisses a lawsuit filed by an organization of Southeast Alaska civic and business leaders. The Southeast Conference had challenged a 2008 management plan for the Tongass developed by the Bush administration. The plan leaves about 3.4 million acres of the …