#tongass — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #tongass, aggregated by home.social.
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Alaska Court Rules Against Logging in America's Largest National Forest | #Tongass https://gearjunkie.com/news/tongass-national-forest-logging-lawsuit
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Comment by March 20 to Protect the Alaskan Tongass National Forest: Don't Open America's Rainforest to Clearcutting
#Tongass #TongassNationalForest #Alaska #PublicLands #PublicLandsInPublicHands
https://act.sierraclub.org/actions/national?actionid=ar0603310&id=70131000001iOuIAAU -
Conservation in Action: Threats to Public Lands in Alaska and Beyond
#PublicLands #Alaska #TongassNationalForest #Tongass
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Hype for the Future 105F: Tongass National Forests
Introduction The State of Alaska is most notable in the Alaska Panhandle for communities such as Juneau, Sitka, and Ketchikan. However, the Tongass National Forest is also associated with nearly the entirety of the region of the Alaska Panhandle, with a significant presence of protected zones and areas associated with the vicinity of the primary communities. Boroughs The Tongass National Forest is associated with scenic beauty and mountains located within the Pacific Northwest in the form […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/hype-for-the-future-105f-tongass-national-forests/
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WATCH: New film documents threats to Tongass National Forest, need for protection #Tongass #environment #forest #forests https://www.wilderness.org/articles/blog/watch-new-film-documents-threats-tongass-national-forest-need-protection
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Statewide coalition files suit challenging reimposition of Tongass National Forest’s Roadless Rule
[the_ad id="30587"]JUNEAU – On Friday, Sept. 8, 2023, a group of 24 diverse, statewide Alaska resource associations, Southeast Alaska communities, utilities, and businesses filed a Complaint opposing the U.S. Department of...
https://alaska-native-news.com/statewide-coalition-files-suit-challenging-reimposition-of-tongass-national-forests-roadless-rule/69814/
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"I describe walking into the forest as walking into one of the most beautiful cathedrals you'll ever find in the world," he said. "I don't want to have my grandchildren, their grandchildren, to have to fight for that too."
My friend & #alaska neighbor Joel Jackson in BBC!
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Tribe pleased with US federal decision (called the "Roadless Rule") Tlingit & Haida Hails the Restored Protections to the Tongass National Forest "stability and certainty to the conservation of 9.3 million acres of the United States’ largest national forest and world's last largest temperate old-growth rainforest. " #Alaska #Tongass #USFS #Conservation #Forests #IndigenousPeoples
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My heart sank for the umpteenth time when that faux president lifted restrictions on roads & logging in the Tongass National Forest, but Biden restored those protections today. Tongass is a large temperate rainforest in S.E. AK, the largest N.F. in the US, & home to an incredible ecosystem full of wild critters, & even a few ancient trees . Mahalo Joe!
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/25/1151497319/alaska-tongass-national-forest-logging
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♲ @[email protected]:Please tell the Biden administration to restore protections for Alaska’s Tongass National Forest
#Politics #Biden #Alaska #Tongass #NationalForest #NRDC #Petition
"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.
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.
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,
Niel Lawrence
Alaska Director and Senior Attorney, NRDC"
Please tell the Biden administration to take swift action
Call on the Biden administration to restore protections for America’s largest wild forest -
5115 acres old-growth forest in A’aakw Kwáan lands (near Juneau, Alaska) are being threatened by the Trump administration:
"The U.S. Forest Service’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the South Revilla Integrated Resource Project timber sale proposes chainsawing 5,115 acres of old-growth forest near Ketchikan. It also would allow bulldozing or rebuilding more than 80 miles of damaging logging roads costing U.S. taxpayers more than $11 million. The public will have until Oct. 19 to provide comments.
The Tongass is the largest intact temperate rainforest left on Earth and provides vital habitat for eagles, bears, wolves, salmon and countless other species. It is a globally recognized carbon sink and helps to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change, storing approximately 8% of the total carbon stored in all U.S. national forests.
Tongass is the largest national forest in the United States. Since time immemorial it has been the traditional homelands of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian peoples.
“This assault on America’s largest rainforest will destroy important habitat for salmon, bears and wolves, and worsen the climate crisis,” said Randi Spivak, Public Lands Director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Clearcutting the Tongass and wiping out enormous carbon stores is like cutting off part of the planet’s oxygen supply. It’s mind-boggling that the Trump administration wants to decimate this spectacular old-growth forest and erase one of the solutions to averting catastrophic climate change.”"
