Save the Tongass National Forest

Tell Congress to end logging subsidies in the Tongass National Forest once and for all.


We need your urgent action to make sure that Congress stands
firm against taxpayer subsidies for destroying America's
greatest temperate rainforest.

Please tell your senators and representative to protect
the Tongass, a thriving habitat for grizzly bears, salmon runs,
bald eagles and the elusive Alexander Archipelago wolf.

Thanks to pressure from you and other online activists, the
House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in June to halt
taxpayer subsidies for destructive new logging roads in Alaska's
Tongass National Forest.

But Alaska's senior senator, Ted Stevens, is now working
feverishly behind closed doors to make sure that this
long-overdue legislation never sees the light of day. And he's
drafting his own, underhanded, amendment to restrict sharply the
public's ability to halt wasteful and devastating Tongass
logging in court.

Over the last 25 years, more than 1 billion taxpayer dollars
have been spent to clearcut and build roads through this
irreplaceable BioGem.

NRDC activists like you have spoken out again and again against
these wasteful handouts, which have enabled timber companies to
expand their reach into the unspoiled heart of America's
rainforest.

Please demand that House and Senate negotiators stand up to Senator
Stevens and his destructive logging-road subsidies in the
Tongass!

Thank you for helping to defend this priceless rainforest refuge
for imperiled Alaskan wildlife.

Sincerely,

Frances Beinecke
President
Natural Resources Defense Council

http://www.savebiogems.org/tongass/takeaction