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For decades, we’ve defended our public lands for the benefit of all people, and we’ll continue fighting back as long as Trump’s attacks continue.

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

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins today announced a rollback of the Roadless Rule

Allowing logging and roadbuilding on now protected lands in the Tongass National Forest is a deeply unpopular action that poses grave harm to the forest

An analysis on fire in roaded areas from The Wilderness Society (TWS).

The bill includes proposals to sell out our public lands and waters to corporate interests

The bill would permanently codify the U.S. Forest Service’s roadless rule into federal law, protecting over 50 million acres of national forests from logging and other development

Timber interests try to force more old-growth logging sales in the Tongass National Forest

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