KEEP THE TONGASS FOREST SAFE FOR BIRDS AND WILDLIFE

Red-breasted Sapsuckers use ancient trees in the Tongass for key cavity nesting sites. Urge Congress to leave the big, ancient trees of the Tongass standing for the birds and wildlife that rely on them. Take Action › In a late-night back room deal, Members of Congress snuck a provision into an unrelated Defense Authorization bill that would log some of the rarest and largest ancient trees remaining in one the world’s most intact old-growth temperate rainforests—Alaska’s Tongass National Forest.  Write to your Representative and Senators now and tell them you oppose the Tongass provision in the Defense Authorization bill. The Tongass has been hit hard by industrial-scale old-growth logging, and pending timber sales, such as the announced Big Thorne project, are already threatening the tracts of unbroken forest needed by birds and wildlife. The language in the Defense Authorization bill will transfer irreplaceable public lands from Alaska's Tongass National Forest to a private corporation, allowing it to cut some of the rarest and largest ancient trees left in the forest. These old-growth forests are critical for birds and other wildlife, including the Queen Charlotte Goshawk, Alexander Archipelago wolf, Sitka black-tailed deer, and more. This underhanded attack on the Tongass will only add to the risks for birds and other wildlife that rely on the Tongass. Please take a moment to write to your elected officials and tell them you oppose further old-growth logging in the Tongass National Forest. Sincerely, David Yarnold President & CEO, National Audubon Society