Call on the Biden Administration to Restore Protections for America's
Largest Wild Forest

Help save the Tongass from an onslaught of taxpayer-subsidized
clear-cutting that would have devastating effects on our climate: [ [link removed]- ]Send
a letter asking the Biden administration to restore protections gutted by
the Trump administration.
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Dear NRDC Activist,

Before leaving office, Trump stripped protections from millions of acres
of the largest intact temperate rainforest left in the world: Alaska's
Tongass National Forest.

This blatant giveaway to logging companies and other industries is not
only an egregious attack on our shared public lands and Alaska's
Indigenous communities who have called the Tongass home for generations,
but it is also an attack on our climate.

The Tongass's countless groves of irreplaceable old growth trees store
more carbon per acre than almost any other forest on the planet, making it
an absolutely critical tool in the fight against climate change.

[ [link removed]- ]Tell the Biden administration to take swift action to restore
protections for Alaska's Tongass National Forest so that we can save this
cherished land from an onslaught of industrial development. Please send
your letter now >>

The Trump administration gutted protections for the Tongass last year by
rolling back the Roadless Rule, which protected these wildlands and Native
ways of life from the ravages of large-scale, industrial logging by
prohibiting the building of roads and timber harvesting.

It's largely because of the Roadless Rule that today this 17 million-acre
forest is teeming with wildlife and mostly free of roads and logging. The
forest is home to species like the Alexander Archipelago wolf, brown and
black bears, salmon, and the world's largest breeding concentration of
bald eagles.

But now that could all change — with the Roadless Rule no longer
protecting the Tongass, the door is open for logging companies to rapidly
clear-cut these ancient trees to bolster their profits and developers to
bulldoze roads deep into pristine reserves.

[ [link removed]- ]We must put a stop to this now before it's too late. Send an email to
President Biden's administration telling them to act immediately to
reinstate the Roadless Rule.

NRDC has been fighting a decades-long battle to defend the Tongass from
being ripped open by corporate interests and industrialization, and when
the Trump administration rolled back protections last year, we joined with
Indigenous communities and rushed to court to stop them.

We'll keep fighting in and out of court for the Tongass, all our cherished
wildlands, and the Native communities whose entire way of life depends on
these lands — but we need your help. Thanks for standing with us.

Sincerely,

[1]Niel
Niel Lawrence
Alaska Director and Senior Attorney, NRDC


The mission of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is to
safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals, and the natural
systems on which all life depends.

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