Halt Logging In Our National Forests

Halt Logging In Our National Forests

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The Tongass National Forest is an extraordinary rainforest wilderness -- most of which looks as it did, as John Muir said, "in the morning of creation."<br /><br />But with commercial logging companies poised to start felling century-old trees in Tongass wildlands, thanks to President Bush's evasion of the Roadless Rule, we may have reached the dawn of destruction in the Tongass. <br /><br /><a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&amp;page=UserAction&amp;id=1577">Don't let it happen. Tell President Obama to enforce the Roadless Rule.</a><br /><br />We thought the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule meant logging trucks would never penetrate untouched reaches of the Tongass -- a magnificent wilderness area eight times the size of Yellowstone. We hoped the Tongass, and America's other wild and roadless national forests, had been preserved for generations to come.&nbsp;<br /><br />But the Bush Administration exempted the Tongass, which could now open up the heart of the world's largest intact temperate rainforest to commercial logging. Unless we act quickly, the deep silence here could soon be shattered by diesel trucks and screaming chainsaws.<br /><br />President Obama promised on the campaign trail that he'd be "proud to support and defend" the 2001 Roadless Rule, which protects 58.5 million acres of roadless wilderness. But so far no one in his administration has followed through. <br /><br />Which means wildland logging in the Tongass could begin virtually any day.<br /><a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&amp;page=UserAction&amp;id=1577"><br />Let's hold President Obama to his word -- and keep the logging trucks at bay -- by taking action now.</a><br /><br />The Bush Administration didn't open up only roadless areas in Tongass to logging. They also attempted to undermine the Roadless Rule in other national forests. <br /><br />And now that the timber companies are poised to start logging in the Tongass back country, they're setting their sights on untouched forests in Colorado and elsewhere! We can't allow them to reduce America's last wild forests to clear-cut wastelands. <br /><br />It's time to stop the trucks in their tracks and enforce the Roadless Rule in the Tongass, in Colorado, and in ALL of America's other national forests.<br /><br />Our national forests belong to you and me and all Americans. By preserving the wilds of the past, we leave a legacy to the future. Please do your part and act now to help NRDC close the Bush-era logging loophole and save our last wild forests.<br /><br />Source: National Resource Defense Council

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