Fed up with the State of Alaska’s and State Senator Stedman’s continued blind-eye to widespread public opposition to the so-called “Kake Access Project,” local citizens, the Organized Village of Kake, and allies acted in early July against issuance of a federal permit that the project needs.

On June 24, 2020 federal District Court Judge Sharon Gleason, granted a complete victory to Alaska Rainforest Defenders and seven other environmental plaintiffs, vacating the Forest Service’s 2019 decision to conduct massive logging and road building in a project it euphemistically called the Prince of Wales Landscape Level Analysis (POWLLA).

According to the April 1, 2020, Tongass National Forest Schedule of Proposed Actions (SOPA), the Central Tongass Project (CTP) has been put “on hold” for an undetermined length of time.