Today, we're going to court to protect Tongass habitat! EARTHJUSTICE, BECAUSE THE EARTH NEEDS A GOOD LAWYER 3FEB16

GREED, not need, is driving industry and governments to destroy, piece by piece, areas so beautiful and so rare, like the Tongass National Forest, that we run the risk of loosing them forever. If we allow the Tongass be destroyed forever we better make sure all the pictures are destroyed too so future generations don't see them and curse us for taking the Tongass from them. Please click the link and donate to fund this court case by +Earthjustice against the Big Thorne timber sale (any amount will help, I donated $10.00) if you can, and share this with others! More environmental actions and updates on this blog here.....

Today, we’re going to court to stop vast swaths of the Tongass from being clear-cut. Will you help us win? Make an urgent tax-deductible gift to help us fight back to save our natural world! DONATE NOW After the U.S. Forest Service approved the Big Thorne timber sale—the largest, most destructive old-growth clear-cutting project in the Tongass National Forest in decades—my team and I sprang into action. And today, we’re going to court to fight back! Will you help us win? We can’t stand by while vast swaths of the Tongass National Forest—one of the last ancient coastal rainforests—are clear-cut. And the courts are our last line of defense! Make an urgent tax-deductible gift today to help us fight in court to save Tongass habitat and the wild. If our opponents get their way, the Tongass will see more road building and extreme old-growth logging for years to come. But with you by our side, we’ll protect this crown jewel of the national forest system, home to towering stands of 700-year-old trees that provide vital habitat for bears, salmon, Sitka black-tailed deer, goshawks, and the rare and dwindling Alexander Archipelago wolf. Now more than ever, we need your help. Your gift will be put to work immediately to help us save the wild! For decades, Earthjustice has fought to protect the Tongass from clear-cut logging—and we’ve won. We defended the Roadless Rule in the region and protected wild lands throughout this magnificent forest. And today, with your gift, we’ll stand up for the Tongass—and all wild places—before it’s too late! Thank you for your help,

Holly Harris Staff Attorney Alaska Office DONATE NOW

P.S. We’re fighting to save the Tongass and prevent vast swaths of ancient coastal rainforest from being clear-cut—but we need your help! Make an urgent tax-deductible gift today to help us take on this and other critical fights in court.

Supreme Court Stops Climate Change Attack & more in the OKT 2013 E Brief from EarthJustice

THE Oktober e mail newsletter from EarthJustice, with updates on environmental court cases and reporting on a string of victories in cases concerning noise pollution and whales and dolphins along the Pacific coast, salmon runs in the Pacific Northwest, Caribbean coral reefs, logging of old growth forest in Tongass Nat Forest, the Sunflower coal fired power plant in Kansas, crude oil rail terminals in Washington State and preventing oil & gas drilling in Utah's red rock country. EarthJustice has had a good month!

October 2013

Washington, D.C. High Court Rebuffs Industry Over Climate Change, Lands Supreme Court victories topped an especially successful month for Earthjustice work. The high court refused to hear industry attacks on whether climate change pollutants endanger our health, and it rejected attacks on pollution limits for cars and trucks. The court also ended a long fight over oil and gas development on public lands.    Continue Reading »

Trip's Column Living On A Carbon Budget The Earth faces carbon bankruptcy if humans keep pouring carbon into the atmosphere at the current rate—according to the latest U.N. climate report. It's time to curb consumption of fossil fuels and go on a strict carbon budget, says Earthjustice President Trip Van Noppen.     Continue Reading »

Down to Earth: An Audio Interview On the Fracking Frontlines From the California coast to Maryland ports, Earthjustice is fighting to protect communities and special places from fracking. Deborah Goldberg, co-Managing Attorney for our Northeast Office, discusses our campaign.     Listen to Interview »

In The News West Coast Whales, Dolphins Get Relief from Noxious Navy Noise The Navy, with the blessing of the National Marine Fisheries Service, has been using the waters off the Northwest coast for war practice and to test equipment. This often involves very loud noises that disrupt feeding and breeding by orcas, dolphins, and other marine mammals. Earthjustice sued and a judge ruled that NMFS must reconsider its permit and apply the very latest science to reduce harm to the species.    Continue Reading »    Pacific Northwest Protect Volts and Smolts, Appeals Court Rules An appeals court recently found that the Northwest can generate sufficient electricity—while doing more to protect salmon runs on the Columbia and Snake rivers—in its operation of dams. The decision came after Earthjustice sued to protect runs of steelhead and salmon.    Continue Reading »    Slideshow: Saving the Pacific Salmon Caribbean Sea Help For Coral's Best Friend If you like the Caribbean's sandy beaches and vibrant coral reefs, you will cheer a court ruling that protects parrotfish—a fish that keeps the reefs and beaches healthy.    Continue Reading »    Press Release: Our Reaction to the Decision Alaska Woodsmen, Spare The Wolves A plan to do industrial-scale logging in the Tongass National Forest has been placed on hold by the U.S. Forest Service until the agency reexamines impacts on wolf and deer populations. The decision is a victory for Earthjustice and allies opposed to large-scale old-growth logging.    Continue Reading »    The Forest Service stepped back from the brink. – Tom Waldo, Earthjustice Kansas Sunflower Wilts In Kansas Supreme Court Decision The Kansas Supreme Court has rejected the air permit for expansion of Sunflower's coal-fired power plant—an action that may doom the polluting project six years after Earthjustice began fighting it.    Continue Reading »    Audio Interview: "Clean Coal's" Dirty Secret Washington Crude-By-Rail Blocked What do Earthjustice, the Quinault Indian Nation and the Surfrider Foundation have in common? They all just halted two huge crude-by-rail shipping terminals in Washington State, citing no Quebec-like railcar disasters in our backyard.    Continue Reading »    We will not let Grays Harbor become an Alberta Tar Sands and North Dakota oil depot. – Fawn Sharp, President, Quinault Indian Nation

unEARTHED Kristen Boyles Attorney, Northwest Office Toxic pesticide ends its poisonous reign     Read Blog Post »    Kari Birdseye National Press Secretary Wild bison targeted as livestock     Read Blog Post »

Action Center Protect Wolves From State-Led Hunts Gray wolves have made gains since being reintroduced in Yellowstone, but their position is tenuous to nonexistent in the vast majority of their former range. Despite this, the Obama administration announced plans to strip wolves of their federal protections. Will you lend gray wolves your voice so their recovery can continue?     Take Action Today!  »

In Memory of Phil Berry Earthjustice's co-founder is remembered as brilliant, witty, generous—and a fierce defender of the Earth.     Continue Reading »

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TAKE ACTION: Land Grab Bill Threatens America's Rainforest from EARTHJUSTICE 2APR12

THERE are just some areas of this country that should be left alone, untouched, wild, primitive. Look at the picture below and you'll agree the Tongass National Forest is one of these areas, it definitely should not be turned over to sealaska or any other corporation for clearcutting and / or development. Click the link to send Sec of Agriculture Vilsack a message telling him to save Tongass N.F. from sealaska and any other corporation!

TAKE ACTION! Land Grab Bill Threatens America's Rainforest
	Congress is considering a bill that would give away some of the best old-growth habitat in Alaska’s magnificent Tongass National Forest to the Sealaska Corporation for clearcutting. Take Action Today!
Right now, Congress is considering the fate of many of the finest stands of coastal temperate rainforest in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest—considered to be the crown jewel of the U.S. National Forest system. If passed, this legislation will hand over tens of thousands of acres to Sealaska Corporation for clearcutting and commercial development. Gone will be towering stands of trees as old as 500 years and as big as 10 feet in diameter—some of the richest prizes in this vast old-growth rainforest. Gone, too, will be the home they provide for eagles, bears, wolves, salmon and countless other species. Also harmed will be the many southeast Alaskans who live off these lands and waters for their subsistence lifestyles and livelihoods, and the many others from across the country who rely upon and visit the Tongass for world-class recreation, hunting, tourism, and sport and commercial fishing. Sealaska has already received over 290,000 acres of land from the Tongass in a previous Congressionally approved deal to settle native land claims that the corporation sought back in 1976. This current legislation (H.R. 1408 and S. 730) would change that deal and give Sealaska new and many of the best areas of the Tongass. Allowing this single corporate stakeholder to gain control and ownership of the most valuable areas of the Tongass undermines the Forest Service’s plan to transition out of old-growth logging and into more sustainable economic development through ecosystem restoration, fishing, and tourism. The proposed legislation also gives away numerous smaller parcels scattered throughout the Tongass, including popular anchorage areas, hunting and fishing hotspots, and many of the best sites that sit at the edge of wilderness areas, heads of bays, and mouths of salmon streams. Privatizing these sites for commercial development by Sealaska Corporation would restrict public access and jeopardize the number of tourism and outfitter businesses, sport and commercial fishermen, and local Alaskans and visitors who rely on the Tongass for their livelihoods and recreational enjoyment. Don’t let this corporate earmark legislation irreversibly harm the national treasure that is the Tongass. Join with us and urge the Obama administration to steadfastly oppose the legislation as the bills work their way through Congress. Please act now to save this magnificent place by sending this letter to USDA Secretary Vilsack—who oversees the U.S. Forest Service—asking him to protect the Tongass National Forest and oppose the Sealaska Corporation legislation. Sincerely, Rebecca Judd Legislative Counsel Earthjustice

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