The Trump administration is rushing to open millions of acres of pristine
wildlands in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to logging and other
damaging development.

Help stop them from stripping the Tongass of vital protections under the
Roadless Rule: Submit an official public comment before the 12/17
deadline.
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Dear NRDC Activist,

The Trump administration wants to hand over millions more acres of
America's publicly owned lands to corporate interests and
industrialization — this time, in Alaska's unspoiled Tongass National
Forest.

They're rushing to weaken the Roadless Rule, a long-standing landmark rule
that protects the Tongass from the ravages of large-scale, industrial
logging by prohibiting the building of roads and timber harvesting.

Make no mistake: Rolling back the Roadless Rule from protecting the
Tongass is a taxpayer-subsidized giveaway from the Trump administration to
timber and logging companies so they can destroy some of America's last
pristine, ancient trees at the expense of our climate, wildlife, and
public lands — all to bolster profits.

The U.S. Forest Service must consider public input on their draft
environmental impact statement for this disastrous plan — but only for the
next few weeks. [ [link removed] ]We need your help to overwhelm the administration with
letters calling on them to uphold the Roadless Rule in Alaska and oppose
destructive logging in the Tongass National Forest.

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The 2001 Roadless Rule protects more than 58 million acres of wild,
untouched public forests across the country by banning construction and
development, saving the Tongass, America's largest national forest, from
an onslaught of fast-paced clearcutting.

As a result, the Tongass today is teeming with wildlife and mostly free of
roads and logging operations. The 17 million-acre forest is home to
species like the Alexander Archipelago wolf, grizzly bears, salmon, and
the world's largest breeding concentration of bald eagles.

The Tongass also stores more carbon per acre than almost any other forest
on the planet, making it an absolutely critical tool in the fight against
climate change.

But, once this iconic forest is gone, it's gone forever. [ [link removed] ]Speak up now
to save the heart of the largest intact temperate rainforest left in the
world. Send a message to the Trump administration today opposing their
assault on the Tongass.

NRDC has been fighting a decades-long battle to defend the Tongass and
other roadless forests from being ripped open by corporate interests and
industrialization, and we aren't backing down now.

We need your help to raise a national outcry opposing their disastrous
plan to weaken the Roadless Rule: [ [link removed] ]Submit an official public comment
before the December 17 deadline to save the Tongass National Forest from
destruction.

Thank you for standing with us at this critical time.

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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