Friend,

Right now, the 800-year-old trees of the Tongass National Forest are vulnerable to logging.

The Trump administration erased critical protections for the Tongass in 2020. Now the Biden administration is considering restoring those protections, saving one of the largest remaining temperate rainforests in the world from logging.

If we can rally enough support, this could be a huge win for the old-growth forest and the grizzlies, eagles and moose that call it home -- and that's where you come in, Friend.1

Tell the Forest Service that you want to save the Tongass by adding your name to our petition today.

The Tongass is full of fjords, mountains, and dense groves of trees older than America.2 If we don't protect the Tongass, it's vulnerable to vast, irreparable damage. Once these towering trees fall, there is nothing we can do to replace their role in this delicate ecosystem.

The Tongass is also important for preventing climate change: It's the largest carbon sink in North America.3 In order to protect this old-growth forest and its wildlife from logging, we need to join our voices and we need to be loud.

If we don't voice our support for fully protecting the Tongass today, the logging industry could ruin the 9.2 million acres of lush habitat, and we could lose these irreplaceable trees forever.

Join us and use your voice to tell the Forest Service that we must protect the Tongass from logging and development.

The Roadless Rule protects treasured forests from logging and human development, ensuring our wild places stay wild. The Trump administration stripped the Tongass of these protections in late 2020, and the forest has been vulnerable ever since.4

Our national network led the charge to establish the Roadless Rule in 2001, gathering 700,000 voices to petition for the protection of our forests. We've worked to defend the Tongass ever since, taking the Trump administration to court when it tried to resume logging, and rallying public support for this incredible forest.

Now, we need your help to defend the Tongass and make sure one of our greatest forests is protected for good.

Help keep the Tongass wild and untouched for centuries to come -- tell the Forest Service to protect the Tongass.

Thank you for standing up the Tongass,

Rex Wilmouth
Senior Program Director

1. Brendan Jones, "Trees older than America: a primeval Alaskan forest is at risk in the Trump era," The Guardian, March 22, 2018.
2. Brendan Jones, "Trees older than America: a primeval Alaskan forest is at risk in the Trump era," The Guardian, March 22, 2018.
3. Coral Davenport, "Biden to Restore Protections for Tongass National Forest in Alaska," The New York Times, July 14, 2021.
4. Coral Davenport, "Biden to Restore Protections for Tongass National Forest in Alaska," The New York Times, July 14, 2021.