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“If you have traveled, paddled, fished, biked,   

“If you have traveled, paddled, fished, biked, skied, or cruised your way through Southeast Alaska, you have stood in the Tongass National Forest, and you have seen our trees, our eagles, our fish, our whales, and our way of life. This forest belongs to all of us, and we are going to fight for it.” Meredith Trainor, Executive Director of the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council. The Roadless Rule keeps our wildest remaining forests intact. The U.S. Forest Service is recommending to exempt what's left of the Tongass National Forest from the Rule, which would undermine law that protects the largest intact temperate rainforest in the world from logging, road-building and other development. We have a chance to do something about it. Take action here: Photo: Colin Arisman