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.

STOP THE PEBBLE MINE! HERE IS THE AD IN THE LONDON FINANCIAL TIMES TODAY 19APR12

HERE is the ad from the NRDC that ran in the NY Times on 16APR12 and is in the London (U.K.) Financial Times today while representatives of the NRDC and other environmental organizations as well as residents of Bristol Bay and the area of of proposed mine testify against the mine at the annual shareholders meetings of anglo american and rio tinto in London.

		You Helped Us Turn Up the Heat! Thanks to you, our full-page ad exposing the mining giants behind the Pebble Mine ran in Monday’s New York Times. Pressure is building on the companies to take No for an answer. View the Ad Again. We did it! Thanks to donations from thousands of supporters like you, our hard-hitting ad slamming the two British-based corporations behind the disastrous Pebble Mine appeared in Monday’s national edition of The New York Times. The ad will also run in London’s Financial Times on Thursday, the same day that both companies will be holding their annual shareholders meetings -- forcing investors to ask themselves if they really want a share of this environmental and financial disaster. NRDC will be delivering 400,000 new Letters of Protest to those meetings and we’ll be testifying, alongside representatives from Bristol Bay, against this unacceptable assault on one of America’s last and greatest wild places. Thanks to you, our public mobilization campaign is reaching millions of people -- on both sides of the Atlantic -- with the ugly truth behind this toxic mega-mine. Thank you for standing with us in this fight. I’ll be sure to keep you updated in the days and weeks ahead. Sincerely, Frances Beinecke President Natural Resources Defense Council

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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STOP THE PEBBLE MINE from the NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL 6JUN11

PLEASE join in this campaign by the Natural Resources Defense Council to stop the Pebble Mine in Alaska and to protect the last remaining Cook Inlet Beluga whales from extinction and to protect one of the greatest salmon spawning river systems in the world. Watch the video and then click the link to sign on and learn more about the environmental threat from the Pebble Mine and Anglo American Corp.

Won’t you take just a few seconds to speak out for 340 beluga whales that are clinging to survival? The proposed Pebble Mine could push these amazing creatures over the edge into extinction. Tell the Anglo American corporation you won’t stand for it! And please do it now; it’s a matter of survival. BELUGAS AND MINING DON’T MIX! The Pebble Mine threatens two different populations of beluga whales. We can’t let the mining giants sacrifice these amazing creatures for the sake of corporate profits. Speak out now! There are only five populations of belugas left in Alaska and the proposed Pebble Mine threatens two of them! Please sign our new Petition to stop the Pebble Mine and save beluga whales. Alaska’s Cook Inlet beluga population is down to its very last 340 individuals. But if mining giant Anglo American gets its way, the white whale’s habitat will be invaded by a new port, increased shipping traffic and pollution plus other industrial activity -- all to service the monumentally destructive Pebble Mine. Meanwhile, Bristol Bay’s population of some 1,600 belugas depend for their survival on the bay’s world-renowned salmon runs, which could be destroyed by Anglo-American’s mega-mine and its estimated 10 billion tons of contaminated waste. Tell Anglo American that you refuse to sacrifice Alaska’s beluga whales to the corporate bottom line. Thanks to your activism and support, we fought for and won endangered species status for Cook Inlet belugas -- also called “sea canaries” for their incredibly beautiful songs. More recently, the Obama Administration designated 3,000 square miles of Cook Inlet as “critical habitat” for these endangered whales. You and I didn’t fight to save these last 340 belugas, only to see them wiped out by the Pebble Mine! That’s one more big reason we need to stop this mine before it starts. Please make your voice heard on behalf of belugas. Tell Anglo American to abandon its plans for the Pebble Mine now. Sincerely, Frances Beinecke President Natural Resources Defense Council