The future of America’s Rainforest is at stake. The Tongass National Forest in Alaska contains some of the largest remaining stretches of old-growth temperate rainforest in the world. The Tongass is considered the crown jewel of our National Forests, but it has faced decades of destructive old-growth clear-cutting. On May 23rd, the U.S. Forest Service kicked off the process that will determine its future. Help tell the Forest Service that it’s time to end large-scale old-growth logging.

While the Forest Service has announced its intention to transition away from old-growth logging, it says it may continue this destructive practice through the year 2030. Just this year, the agency decided to move forward with the massive Big Thorne timber sale that will put an area the size of 4,600 football fields of old-growth forest on the chopping block.

 We are calling on the Forest Service to promptly move away from old-growth logging and reject this timber sale. Instead of subsidizing the timber industry in the Tongass with $20 million in taxpayer funding every year, the Forest Service should help create a truly sustainable economy based on recreation, tourism, and fishing, in order to preserve the spectacular beauty and value of America’s Rainforest for present and future generations.