Tell Our Senators: Protect Tongass, Pass Roadless Area Conservation Act

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From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): Trees that are older than America itself — some as old as 1,000 years — are being clear-cut by the logging industry.1 Alaska is home to the largest remaining temperate rainforest, but the forest’s protections and its … Continued

Protect Old Growth Forest in Tongass

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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 … Continued