Winter 2020 Newsletter
This newsletter includes a timeline of accomplishments and issues we covered in 2020.
Winter 2019 Newsletter
This newsletter includes a timeline of accomplishments and issues in 2019.
Winter 2018 Newsletter
Topics covered include:
Alaska Roadless Rule: Trump's Forest Service and Governor Dunlevy’s (formerly Walker’s)
State of Alaska are in the process of federal rulemaking to permanently exempt the Tongass
national forest from the Roadless Rule.
Prince of Wales Landscape Level Assessment: While there is no excuse for logging anymore
old-growth forest on Prince of Wales Island, this project would log 435 million board
feet and build 164 miles of road.
Central Tongass Project: This project masquerades as an "integrated resource project" that includes recreation improvements and such, but is in reality a massive logging project.
Fall 2017 Newsletter
Topics covered include:
Federal Logging: Implementation of the 2016 Tongass Land Management and Resource Plan
Timber theft on the Tongass National Forest: On-going federal maladministration exposed
Implementing TLMP: Ongoing destruction of old-growth habitat on Prince of Wales Island
Implementing the Tongass Transition: the Wrangell Island Project
Kosciusko Island: State, Forest Service and other landowners propose a 12,000 acre clearcut
Alaska Mental Health Trust Land Exchange Moves Forward
Fall 2016 Newsletter
Topics covered include:
• Murkowski’s bills to carve up the Tongass
• Status of our Big Thorne lawsuit
• Our work & successes on state and Tongass timber sales
• The problems with so-called “stewardship” & “restoration”
Fall 2015 Newsletter
Topics covered include:
Big Thorne Project
Saddle Lakes Timber Sale
Mitkof Island Project
Response to State timber sales and plans
Tongass Advisory Committee Meetings