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Hi John,
Covering most of Southeast Alaska, the Tongass is the largest national forest in the United States.
But lumber companies are hungry to log its beautiful old trees. This extraordinary, biodiverse landscape must be protected, so the Center for Biological Diversity just took legal action.
Please help us by making a matched gift today to the Future for the Wild Fund. Thanks to generous donors, every gift will be doubled.
Stretching across 17 million acres of land, most of the Tongass is temperate rainforest. It's home to wildlife rarely seen elsewhere, including Queen Charlotte goshawks and Alexander Archipelago wolves.
Brown and black bears, bald eagles, black-tailed deer, and all five species of Pacific salmon live in the Tongass. Arctic terns summer on its shores, also home to an array of marine wildlife, from orcas and humpback whales to sea lions, seals, and sea otters.
But Big Timber is pushing aggressively to cut down more ancient trees in the Tongass.
Destroying one of the most wildlife-abundant places on Earth would be a disaster. It would expose countless species to harm and set off a carbon bomb that would worsen the climate crisis.
Cutting down great, old trees for private profit is a practice that belongs in the past. That's why the U.S. Forest Service transitioned to supporting recreation, restoration, sustainable fishing, and other priorities in the Tongass.
Still, timber interests want to clearcut the old growth that remains, causing damage that can't be undone.
The Center and our allies are doing all we can to intervene so that the Tongass' most venerable and precious beings — from towering yellow cedars to rare black wolves — stay alive.
Because the forces we're up against are so ruthless, please start a monthly donation to sustain our defense of the natural world.
For the wild,
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