A legal victory means Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument will remain protected from destructive commercial logging.

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

Thanks to collective advocacy, 9 million acres of Tongass National Forest are no longer threatened by new clear-cut logging.

Proposal grants land transfer from Tongass National Forest

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.

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.

Forest Service announcement is a win for climate

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

Here are 4 actions the Biden administration should focus on right away.

A coalition of rainforest defenders, represented by Earthjustice, successfully halted a massive commercial timber sale on Prince of Wales Island in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. The U.S. Forest Service had green-lighted a sweeping 15-year logging scheme over a 1.8-million-acre project area across Prince of Wales and surrounding islands, part of a program dubbed the Prince…

In a multi-year litigation effort, a diverse coalition of Alaska Native, tourism industry, and environmental organizations successfully challenged the Bush administration’s 2003 rule “temporarily” exempting southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest — the nation’s largest and wildest — from the landmark 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. More than a decade later, Earthjustice and our clients went…

Earthjustice is defending the Tongass National Forest, a key weapon in fighting climate change

Old-growth trees in the Tongass National Forest serve as an excellent buffer against climate change. 111 scientists called on the Biden administration to include strong protections for these forests as a climate measure.

50 organizations called on President Joe Biden to include long-term protections for the Tongass National Forest and other mature, carbon-dense forests as part of his administration's international climate commitments.

Biden administration expected to release international climate commitments ahead of Earth Day summit on April 22