From the Alaska Wilderness League (http://www.alaskawild.org):
The U.S. Forest Service just started a process that opens the door for a massive old-growth logging project where bears, salmon, Sitka black-tailed deer and wolves live in the Tongass National Forest.
The largest logging project in the U.S. in recent history, this plan would authorize clearcutting almost all the old-growth forest that remains on Prince of Wales Island. Moreover, your tax dollars would subsidize this destruction.
For years the Forest Service has lost millions in taxpayer dollars by selling old-growth forest to logging interests at a loss. This is the wrong direction for the region. The Forest Service should instead focus on a sustainable future for Southeast Alaska.
Send a message to the Forest Service at https://act.alaskawild.org/sign/pow_clearcuts/.
Commercial logging has already decimated the forest on Prince of Wales Island. Between 1954 and 2004, the timber industry logged nearly all of the high-volume old-growth forest on the island. We must preserve the last remaining old-growth trees that are vital to salmon streams and wildlife habitat.
The Tongass is one of the few old-growth temperate rainforests in the world, and the United States’ largest national forest. Its towering stands of ancient trees, the oldest of which approach 1,000 years in age, provide vital habitat forsome species found nowhere else in the world.
Please tell the Forest Service to reject the massive Prince of Wales logging project.
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