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Preserve the Tongass National Forest for Future Generations

Target: U.S. Congress
Sponsored by: Alaska Wilderness League

The Tongass National Forest, also known as Alaska's Inside Passage, is a national treasure: one of the few places remaining in the world where old growth forests, brown bears, whales and wild salmon still thrive.

Decades of harmful logging have taken a toll on the land, yet large areas of the Tongass remain majestic and vibrant. People from across America visit Alaska's Inside Passage to experience sights and sounds found nowhere else in the world. The last, best parts of the Tongass are worthy of protection as a legacy for current and future generations of Americans.

deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 10,000

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Dear [Congressmember],

I call on Congress to protect and restore the Tongass National Forest, our nation's largest national forest, for future generations by giving it the strongest protections possible.

Stretched along the Inside Passage of Southeast Alaska, the Tongass National Forest is a remote coastal rainforest of towering old-growth hemlock, spruce and cedar trees, fog-draped mountains, rocky islands, magnificent glaciers, grizzly-filled wildlands and salmon-choked streams.

With close to 14,000 salmon-bearing streams, the Tongass is truly a Wild Salmon stronghold. A natural treasure, it is one of our nation's last remaining salmon forests - a type of forest that once thrived and is now almost completely gone in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

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We took action on “Preserve the Tongass National Forest for Future Generations”!

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1:37 am PDT, Aug 30, Martina Roski, Germany

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9:16 pm PDT, Aug 29, Elsie Frazier, Idaho

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7:48 pm PDT, Aug 28, Jill Hinckley, Texas

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6:53 pm PDT, Aug 28, Gerald Vertrees, Arizona

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6:33 pm PDT, Aug 28, Lucy Pisko, Canada

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5:34 pm PDT, Aug 28, Lisa Barrett, Texas

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5:21 pm PDT, Aug 28, Name not displayed, New Jersey

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9:44 am PDT, Aug 28, Cassandra Wilson, North Carolina

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7:20 am PDT, Aug 28, Glenn & Debbie Carson, New Jersey

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10:50 am PDT, Aug 27, Gail McGlone, Florida

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2:07 am PDT, Aug 27, Ginger Sanders, Minnesota

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11:31 pm PDT, Aug 26, Jordan Yeatts, Idaho

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9:04 pm PDT, Aug 26, Susan Wiget, Oregon

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4:56 pm PDT, Aug 26, Mark Schanzenbach, Minnesota

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6:36 am PDT, Aug 26, Name not displayed, Minnesota

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6:03 am PDT, Aug 26, Amy Bielawski, Georgia

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10:44 pm PDT, Aug 25, Elmo Patrick, New Jersey
Save America's wildlife.

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5:09 pm PDT, Aug 25, Michelle Brown, Virginia

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3:37 pm PDT, Aug 25, Kelly Howle, Idaho

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12:54 pm PDT, Aug 25, Jackie Stocks, Oregon
"The time is always right to do what is right" Martin Luther King Jr

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12:20 pm PDT, Aug 25, Celeste Bettino, New Jersey

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7:37 am PDT, Aug 25, Kim Johnson, Michigan

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7:32 pm PDT, Aug 24, Adria Siraco, Florida

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4:26 pm PDT, Aug 24, Lynn C. Lang, Minnesota

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1:18 pm PDT, Aug 24, Name not displayed, California

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1:12 pm PDT, Aug 24, Joan Bauereiss, New Jersey
Please protect what is left of the Tongass National Forest for the generations after us. I understand the logging that has taken place has done most of the harm. This is part of our world that should be preserved for our future. It is our last remaining salmon forest.

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8:50 am PDT, Aug 24, Kenneth Hartman, Texas
The time to protect this forest is NOW, before it is irrevocably damaged.

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7:01 am PDT, Aug 24, Joe Kuczynski, Minnesota

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7:02 pm PDT, Aug 23, Katie Cook, Washington D.C.
Please protect this beautiful forest; no precious ecosystem should be sacrificed for short-term resource gain. Think in the long-term and think creatively - don't think about destroying the habitat of vital species--whose demise will ultimately be our own.

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6:49 pm PDT, Aug 23, Tina Yaskell, New Hampshire

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1:58 pm PDT, Aug 22, LYNDA TAYLOR, Mississippi

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6:06 pm PDT, Aug 21, Julia Andrew, California

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1:33 pm PDT, Aug 21, Mindy Hunter, Kentucky

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10:45 am PDT, Aug 21, MICHI VOJTA, North Carolina
As a new mama, I find it even more important that we protect our environment for future generations, of people as well as plants and animals.

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7:33 am PDT, Aug 21, Laura Kowal, Michigan

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2:17 am PDT, Aug 21, Michelle Sawicki, California

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12:29 am PDT, Aug 21, Bonnie Hancock, Indiana

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11:38 pm PDT, Aug 20, JAYLA DAWN WOODRUM, Kentucky

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5:16 pm PDT, Aug 20, Shawnamarie Murray MD, New Hampshire
HABITAT IS LIFE...

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1:25 pm PDT, Aug 20, Cynthia Hardin, Florida

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12:28 pm PDT, Aug 20, Name not displayed, Minnesota

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4:48 pm PDT, Aug 19, Andrew Sharpe, Canada
This forest should be preserved, not taken apart! It is the home of many species of animals, and is so beautiful, that it deserves to be enjoyed by people for years to come. If this continues to happen animals will die and the world will lose one of it's most prized and valuable possessions.

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2:00 pm PDT, Aug 19, Joe Harrity, Minnesota

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1:36 pm PDT, Aug 19, Amanda Penn, Washington

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5:15 am PDT, Aug 19, Christy Watson, North Carolina

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3:15 am PDT, Aug 19, Dorienne Willis, Massachusetts

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2:41 am PDT, Aug 19, Name not displayed, Kansas
We must protect this precious resource

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11:53 pm PDT, Aug 18, Rhiannon Le Fay, Oregon

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8:30 pm PDT, Aug 18, Michelle Rife-Bruflodt, Minnesota

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2:46 pm PDT, Aug 18, Benjamin Brody, New York

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9:26 am PDT, Aug 18, Larz Hitchcock, Alaska

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12:17 am PDT, Aug 18, Natascha Schmidt, Germany

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