The U.S. Forest Service and the State of Alaska want to unravel the Roadless Rule on the Tongass National Forest to allow clearcut logging and road building in our roadless wildlands. Our best defense – YOU.

Yesterday, the State of Alaska and the US Forest Service signed a memorandum of understanding to initiate the process to develop an Alaska-specific version of the 2001 Roadless Rule, which currently protects some 9.2 Million acres of Tongass National Forest lands from being casually roaded for logging purposes. The addition of new logging roads to intact forest lands is widely understood and well-documented as having a profound negative impact on the quality of habitat, species diversity, and other characteristics of a natural forest that we contemplate when we think of a landscape that is truly wild.