Take Action: Save the Tongass National Forest

Save the Tongass National Forest

Tell the Bush administration to protect the Tongass National Forest's last remaining wild areas and abandon efforts to increase logging in America's rainforest.

Supervisor Forrest Cole, Tongass National Forest

Dear Supervisor Cole,

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I oppose the U.S. Forest Service's proposed action in the draft environmental impact statement for the Tongass Forest Plan amendment, which would increase costly roadbuilding and logging in one of our nation's most precious natural treasures. Before making your decision, I strongly urge you to consider the ecological health, wildlife habitat, drinking water and recreational value of all remaining roadless areas in the Tongass National Forest.

It is unconscionable to use taxpayer subsidies to destroy the Tongass, one of the crown jewels of America's national forest system, and jeopardize all that it offers for local hunting, fishing, recreation, tourism and subsistence use. Your agency's proposed management plan continues to emphasize logging by allowing five times more timber harvest than is currently taking place. Over the past two decades, this irresponsible pattern has cost taxpayers close to a billion dollars in subsidies to the timber industry and has caused irreparable harm to vast tracts of old-growth forest and the wildlife they sustain.

Hundreds of thousands of Americans have repeatedly asked the Forest Service to protect the remaining wild stretches of this outstanding part of our natural heritage. I call upon you once again to drop the current proposal and adopt a forest management plan that eliminates new logging roads and protects the Tongass National Forest's roadless areas.

Sincerely,

[Your name]
[Your address]

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