From the Alaska Wilderness League (http://www.alaskawild.org):
This crucial rule keeps America’s forests healthy and protected from logging and development, and dismantling it could re-start industrial scale, clear-cut old-growth logging in Southeast Alaska, putting stands of 500-year-old trees on the chopping block.
Help defend America’s national forests. Submit a comment to the U.S. Forest Service urging the continued protection of our old-growth forest in Southeast Alaska at https://act.alaskawild.org/sign/tongass_roadless.
The Roadless Rule protects 9.3 million acres of breathtaking, undeveloped roadless land in the Tongass. If the Trump administration succeeds, it will endanger much of the old-growth temperate rainforest remaining on Earth that resides within the Tongass National Forest.
Not only does this attack threaten habitat for wildlife like grizzly bears, bald eagles, moose, wolves and salmon, but it sets a terrible precedent that could lead to road construction and logging in remote, wild forest areas across the U.S. It’s a step backwards for a sustainable economy in Southeast Alaska, and it could negatively impact what visitors from around the world come to Alaska to see: wild, pristine landscapes that can be experienced first-hand.
Please stand up for tens of millions of acres of our wildest forests. Submit a comment to the U.S. Forest Service today asking that they continue to protect the Tongass National Forest from outdated logging practices.
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