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Earthjustice fights to protect imperiled species and the habitats that support their lives — and ours. Here are highlights of our work to defend our natural world over the past year, and a glimpse at what’s next.

Quotes from groups opposing forestry provisions in budget reconciliation bill.

The Trump administration’s agenda to repeal Roadless Rule protections on the Tongass doesn’t square with a popular vision of sustainable local economies dependent on intact forest ecosystems

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

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

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.

In Kake, Alaska, protecting a temperate rainforest means protecting a way of life.

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

Provision adopted as part of Wildfire Response and Drought Resiliency Act

New Vilsack guidance to Forest Service falls short of protecting key forests

Para detener la crisis de biodiversidad, de la cual depende la vida silvestre, debemos proteger las tierras y las aguas públicas

To stop the biodiversity crisis, we must protect public lands and waters that wildlife depend on.

Environmental organizations call for a new national forest policy that protects old-growth and mature trees and forests

The exploration of landmark cases behind Earthjustice's rise and reinvention.

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

The Biden administration announced unprecedented protections for Tongass National Forest, which Earthjustice has long defended.

U.S. Forest Service revisits Trump rollback of Roadless Rule

Situated in the southeast corner of Alaska, the Tongass National Forest is a temperate rainforest and the ancestral homeland of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian peoples. The islands, fjords, glaciers, and muskegs that make up the Tongass — nation’s largest national forest — provide some of the most rare and intact ecosystems in the world,…