Anonymous,

The Trump administration is doing everything in its power to strip protections from the Tongass National Forest, our largest remaining temperate rainforest.

But we still have a chance to protect the beauty, wildlife and wonder of the Tongass National Forest from destruction by passing the Roadless Area Conservation Act.

Add your name to call on the U.S. House of Representatives to support the Roadless Area Conservation Act today.

Thanks for making it possible,

Hannah Collazo
State Director

P.S. Our work to defend the environment can't stop and won't stop in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. We'll keep advocating on your behalf -- at a safe social distance -- for clean air, clean water, clean energy, wildlife and open spaces, and a livable climate.

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From: Environment Colorado <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, Jun 24, 2020
Subject: Your action needed to save Tongass National Forest
To: Anonymous Donor <[email protected]>

Dear Anonymous,

The Trump administration just removed protections from the Tongass National Forest -- our largest intact temperate rainforest.1

This forest is too special to lose. That's why we're calling on the U.S. House of Representatives to support the Roadless Area Conservation Act today.

Tell the House: Support the Roadless Area Conservation Act.

In southeast Alaska, a dense network of islands is covered in the deep greens of moss and old-growth trees that have been standing for a thousand years. Fog cloaks the web of forest, ice and rock that is home to some of America's most iconic species -- brown bears, moose, and the largest concentration of nesting bald eagles in the world.2

Nearly 9.5 million acres of the 16.7 million acres of forest are now once again at risk of logging, an industry that has long lobbied to enter the areas protected by the Roadless Rule. The 2001 Roadless Rule protects undeveloped lands of our national forests from timber harvesting and road construction -- essentially keeping wild places wild. But the Trump administration has been working to exempt the Tongass from the protection of the Roadless Rule since 2016 -- and now it almost has.3

But there's still a way to save the Tongass. The Roadless Area Conservation Act would codify the 2001 Roadless Rule into law, solidifying the protections for the Tongass and all of the other wildlands across the country that the Roadless Rule currently protects.

Call on your representative to save the Tongass before it's too late.

The ancient cedars, Sitka spruce and hemlocks provide vital habitat to the diverse species that call the forest home. We can't let our largest remaining intact national rainforest be cut down to make doorjambs, crown molding or piano sounding boards.

Take action today.

Thanks for making it all possible,

Hannah Collazo
State Director

1. Juliet Eilperin, "Trump administration proposes expanding logging in Alaska's Tongass National Forest," The Washington Post, October 2019.
2. Brendan Jones, "Trees older than America: a primeval Alaskan forest is at risk in the Trump era," The Guardian, March 22, 2018.
3. "2001 Roadless Rule," Forest Service, last accessed June 10, 2020.