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Support Conservation and Collaboration in the Tongass

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

The Tongass National Forest is a land of huge bears grown fat on salmon, eagles soaring endless skies, and 500-year-old trees standing silent sentry over a lush, verdant world. Old-growth trees foster the rich biodiversity of this rainforest and anchor its intricately balanced ecosystem.

Decades of devastating clearcut logging have forced some hard lessons here: everyone in the Tongass depends on its continued health, from Alaska Natives to newcomers, from tourists to local sawmills. Alaska Wilderness League is engaged in a collaborative effort in the region, bringing all these groups together to finally end the tug of war and develop a comprehensive plan for the Tongass.

With shared and durable success on the Tongass within reach, one timber company, the Sealaska Native Corporation, is appealing directly to Congress to transfer more public lands to private ownership for clearcut logging. If Congress goes along, it will undermine these delicate local conservation efforts.

Protection and wildlife restoration are necessary for any lasting solution on the Tongass. Tell Congress to support collaborative legislation which includes necessary conservation measures.

deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 10,000

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The Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska is a place of balance, where old-growth forests and salmon streams still support abundant fish and wildlife populations, sustain traditional ways of life, and serve as the lynchpin for local economies. In the same way, any successful attempt to craft a resource solution on the Tongass must seek a balance between the needs of many stakeholders and the needs of a healthy ecosystem.

For decades, the Tongass has also been a place of controversy and conflict; embodying the habitual tug of war between conservation and resource development. The standard approach for change has been one of single-interest, go-it-alone policies and tactics which serve only to foster conflict and controversy.

But recently, a new collaborative way of doing business in Southeast Alaska has emerged and is showing real progress. Thanks to the commitment and work of many diverse stakeholders, an unprecedented opportunity exists to resolve long-standing differences and achieve a durable, shared solution for the Tongass that protects and restores the most productive fish and wildlife habitat, meets the needs of local sawmill owners, resolves native land entitlements, and sustains local communities.

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We took action on “Support Conservation and Collaboration in the Tongass”!

# 11,586:

1:09 pm PDT, Oct 11, Christina Anderson, Canada

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11:09 pm PDT, Oct 10, Mary Schor, Maryland

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7:46 pm PDT, Sep 30, Glenn Brown, Nebraska

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3:17 pm PDT, Sep 29, Name not displayed, Texas

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12:55 pm PDT, Sep 28, Karen Wible, Washington

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1:06 am PDT, Sep 25, Name not displayed, Alaska
No land on the Tongass should be transfered to Sealaska Corporation other than the land it chose under ACSA in 1971. Especially no land on Prince of Wales Island should be transfered to Sealaska under S811. A 9200 year old man was discovered in the area where Sealaska wants to clearcut log under S881. Sealaska has ravished all the forest land it has clearcut and exported the trees to Japan without creating any US jobs. Vote no on S881

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7:31 am PDT, Sep 19, Michele Wilkie, Texas

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2:55 pm PDT, Sep 16, Carey Avallone, California

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2:11 pm PDT, Sep 15, Krista Lohr, Florida

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1:50 am PDT, Sep 9, Name not displayed, Tennessee

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11:02 pm PDT, Sep 7, Susan Navidad, Arkansas

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11:58 am PDT, Sep 6, Peg Miller, North Carolina

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10:59 pm PDT, Sep 4, Debbie Egan, California

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5:28 pm PDT, Aug 28, Jeremiah Ward, Arizona

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8:57 am PDT, Aug 23, Sarah Fitzpatrick, Michigan

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1:09 pm PDT, Aug 21, Name not displayed, Massachusetts

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3:33 pm PDT, Aug 20, Lisa Flint, Washington

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1:58 pm PDT, Aug 20, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
Trees lock in Carbon Dioxide by Photosynthesis. They have been grrowing for years and we should protect such beautiful areas.

# 11,567:

12:26 pm PDT, Aug 18, Vicky Kontou, Germany

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8:34 am PDT, Aug 18, Steph Grey, Canada

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7:29 pm PDT, Aug 16, GLENN BROWN, Nebraska

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7:03 pm PDT, Aug 16, Nicole Dost, Pennsylvania

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7:47 pm PDT, Aug 15, Teresa Iovino, Tennessee

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8:42 am PDT, Aug 15, Isak Sandberg, Sweden

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7:17 pm PDT, Aug 13, Ash Maier, Illinois

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8:15 am PDT, Aug 13, Lies Philippe, Belgium

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11:43 am PDT, Aug 12, Karol Krzywon, New Jersey

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3:05 am PDT, Aug 6, Virginia Ilardi, Tennessee

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1:11 pm PDT, Aug 5, Martin Baskin, Virginia
the Tongass is a true national treasure.

# 11,556:

11:30 pm PDT, Aug 1, Joshua Antonietti, Nevada

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6:48 am PDT, Aug 1, Mary Jo Leta, Texas

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7:08 am PDT, Jul 31, Nicole Williams, Virginia

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5:41 pm PDT, Jul 27, Jessica Yeo, California

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9:26 am PDT, Jul 27, Shirley Simmons, Oregon
Please protect our wilderness.

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7:54 am PDT, Jul 27, Jacqueline Peipert, Illinois
The Tongass National Forest in southeastern Alaska is a land of stunning beauty and rich in biodiversity. If Congress transfers more public lands to private ownership for clearcut logging, it will undermine delicate local conservation efforts.

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