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Legal intervention seeks to retain forest protections that support Tribes, communities, and sustainable local economies

The National Roadless Rule, now reinstated on the Tongass National Forest, safeguards vast tracts of old-growth forest that serve as important carbon sinks.

A broad coalition of Alaska Native Tribes, commercial fishers, small tourism businesses, conservation groups, and other forest advocates are seeking to defend the reinstatement of National Roadless Rule protections across the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska by intervening in several legal challenges opposing the rule.

U.S. Forest Service officials are traveling throughout Southeast Alaska to hear from residents about how they want our nation’s largest forest managed in coming decades.

Provision adopted as part of Wildfire Response and Drought Resiliency Act

Local leaders, Alaska Native people, and community members gathered to double down on support for the existing Roadless Rule in the Tongass National Forest

There is strong support for legislative proposal protecting Roadless Rule and safeguarding Tongass National Forest

The National Roadless Rule was rolled back for America’s last great rainforest by the Trump administration, threatening millions of acres of undeveloped national forest lands

Support remains strong for protecting old-growth trees in Southeast Alaska

A decade after the Roadless Rule’s adoption, and years into the Obama administration, we’re still fighting to protect roadless areas.

Landmark ruling on wild National Forest protections

Environmental law organization calls on Secretary of Agriculture Perdue to reject proposal

Landmark ruling on wild national forest protections stands

Time is running out to curb carbon emissions, but Tongass logging will only make climate change worse

A timeline of the creation of and fight to defend the National Forest Roadless Area Conservation Policy.

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ends challenge by the state of Alaska against a nationwide Clinton-era rule protecting tens of millions of acres of roadless forest lands from logging and road building

Only state in the lower 48 to have roadless forest protection downgraded by the Bush administration

Thirteen years after Earthjustice first launched legal action, the nearly 50-million-acre heartland of America’s national forests is secure. A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of the Roadless Rule, virtually ending a politically infested process that pitted resource exploiters against the vast majority of citizens who rely upon these pristine lands for recreation and repose.