Join the Sierra Club in fighting logging road subsidies to save the Tongass National Forest.

The Tongass National Forest represents our nation’s most significant tract of old-growth forest and provides abundant habitat for a diversity of fish and wildlife species, many of which have declined substantially in the lower 48 states. During the last 50 years, the timber industry has logged nearly half a million acres of old-growth forest and constructed over 5,000 miles of logging roads in the Tongass. Although the federal government has always lost money with its commercial logging program in Alaska, the Forest Service is still planning new logging roads and timber sales in wild roadless forests. Moreover, the Roadless Area Conservation Rule is in place across the entire National Forest System — except the Tongass. These wild forests deserve full protection too.

Not only is logging destructive to the forest and wildlife, but taxpayers lose about $40 million dollars each year in the building of new logging roads in the Tongass National Forest.

Help! Sign a Sierra Club petition to protect America’s forests.