fact sheets

Taxpayer Subsidies in the Tongass
An overview of how America's taxpayers lose tens of millions of dollars annually logging in the Tongass National Forest. In fiscal year 2005 the Forest Service closed its books with another year of losses in the Tongass.

Rotten Deal: Roads to Nowhere
An overview of how the Forest Service is using taxpayer dollars to build roads to nowhere in the Tongass National Forest in an attempt to entice timber companies to log the rainforest. (May 2006)

Rotten Deal: Humpback-Gallagher Timber Sale
A fact sheet on the Humpback-Gallagher timber sale in the Tongass National Forest - one of the many rotten deals for America's taxpayers who lose money logging in America's rainforest. (June 2005)

Emerald Bay Timber Sale
An overview of the recently finalized Emerald  Bay Timber Sale which was announced by the Forest Service despite a recent court ruling that the Tongass logging plan is illegal (March 2006).

Court Overturns Tongass Logging Plan
An overview of the court-ordered revision of the Tongass National Forest management Plan. In August 2005, a court ruling said the U.S. Forest Service misled the public during the development of its logging plan in the Tongass National Forest and the plan must be fixed. (April 2006)

publications

Taxpayer Losses and Missed Opportunities. How Tongass Rainforest Logging Costs Taxpayers Millions
In 2003 report summarizing a ten-month investigation into Forest Service and State of Alaska data, the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council documents how the Forest Service continues to pour federal dollars into an uncompetitive timber program despite diminishing benefits to the regional economy.  2006 UPDATE: Learn about record losses.

2005 America's Endangered National Forests Report: Lumber, Landfill or Living Legacy?
The report delivers an on-the-ground look at some of the country's most endangered national forests, including the Tongass National Forest in Alaska.

Tongass Roots: At Home in Alaska's Island Rainforest (2004)
Profiles Alaskans and wild places that they depend on, many threatened by development. This publication illustrates the many different ways people live and work in this rainforest. (2004)

media

Alaska's Rainforest, America's Wilderness
A 16-minute video featuring the Tongass and Chugach National Forests. Learn about the extraordinary abundance of our two largest National Forests.

Thank You Senator Sununu
The Alaska Rainforest Campaign and its partners took to their message of thanks to the public with a billboard thanking Senator Sununu for sponsoring the Tongass Subsidy Amendment which sought to prohibit taxpayer subsidies for logging in the Tongass. (August 2005)

Hunters Support Protection of the Tongass
Wildlife Forever calls on the U.S. Senate to pass the Tongass Subsidy admendment. (July 2005)

Broad Support for Protecting Tongass Roadless Areas
The Society for Wild Alaska, a coalition of influential invidividuals uses an advertisement in Roll Call to call for passage of the Tongass subsidy amendment. The Society for Wild Alaska has a membership of influential conservation-minded individuals who support protection of wild places in Alaska. (May 2005)