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Victories:

Appeals Court Blocks Tongass Timber Sales

Bears, Eagles, and Black-Tailed Deer

House Votes to Stop Subsidizing Logging in the Tongass

Campaign:

The Roadless Area Conservation Rule

Issue:

Region:

Office:

Background:

Restore the Roadless Rule! Citizens demand protection for our last wild forests

Timeline of the Roadless Rule

Tongass Timber Logged and Left to Rot

Buck in Brief:

Happy Birthday to the Tongass (08/14/07)

Legal Document:

Tongass Roadbuilding and Logging Ruling

Tongass Timber Sales 9th Circuit Court Decision

Photo Gallery:

Tongass National Forest, AK

Press Release:

DeLauro Champions Rainforest Bill (10/04/07)

Roadless Areas in Tongass National Forest Get Logging Reprieve (04/04/07)

Tongass River Gets Repreive From Logging (07/14/05)

Tongass Settlement Safeguards Roadless Area While Providing Timber for Mills (04/07/05)

Conservation, Native Groups Challenge First Tongass Timber Sale to Violate Roadless Rule (11/09/04)

Additional Resources:

Unsettling Development

Reports:

Defending the Gains

Paybacks: Policies, Patrons & Personnel

Sign-on Letter:

Roadless Rule Petition Athletes List

Tom's Turn:

Roadless Area Conservation National Advisory Committee (05/22/06)

Roadless Redux (07/15/05)

Higher and Deeper (06/15/05)

Websites:

Alaska Rainforest Campaign (ARC)

Cases

Tongass Timber Sales in Roadless Areas

In Brief: After a landmark victory in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Earthjustice attorneys are working to ensure that roadless areas of the Tongass National Forest are not clearcut while the Forest Service prepares a revised forest management plan.

Staff:

Clients:

Center for Biological Diversity

National Audubon Society

Natural Resources Defense Council

Southeast Alaska Conservation Council

The Wilderness Society

Updated: February 26, 2004

Case #04761