Tongass Roadless. Photo courtesy of Lee Keupper.
The AFFTA Fisheries Fund stands with the people and businesses of Southeast Alaska as they urge the U.S. Forest Service to reinstate roadless protections on the Tongass National Forest. These roadless areas are foundational for Southeast Alaska’s robust fishing and tourism industries, vitally important recreation and subsistence lands, and essential to the local way of life.
The U.S. Forest Service has announced they have a new vision for Southeast Alaska, and that includes putting an end to industrial-scale old growth logging. To begin this effort, the USDA Forest Service has launched a 60-day public comment period to reinstate the Roadless Rule on Alaska.
We are in the home-stretch for the roadless rulemaking comment period, which ends January 24, 2022. To help garner support Trout Unlimited and its partners have created a toolkit for organizations and businesses.
Demonstrating wide-spread community support for the new management direction on Alaska’s Tongass National Forest is key to making sure it sticks moving forward. Take action today.
