America’s last, great rainforest is at risk
Stretching over 1000 miles of coastline from Ketchikan to Kodiak, Alaska boasts the largest temperate rainforest in the world. Most of this rainforest lies within the 22 million acres of the Tongass and Chugach National Forests. Sadly, clearcutting, logging roads, and other harmful development activities are tarnishing this global treasure. The Alaska Rainforest Campaign is working to permanently protect this majestic wild place. To accomplish this goal, ARC is supporting the Alaska Rainforest Conservation Act.

The solution
The Alaska Rainforest Conservation Act would permanently safeguard the remaining important wildlands of the Tongass and Chugach National Forests to provide for hunting, fishing, recreation, tourism, and traditional subsistence activities. Sustainable resource development could still continue in areas that already have logging roads and infrastructure.

The Act would better protect the Tongass and Chugach by:

The Alaska Rainforest Conservation Act Would Create:   

The act provides room for fishing, hunting, recreation, tourism and responsible development in the Alaska rainforest

The act guarantees a future for fishing, hunting, recreation, tourism, and subsistence. Resource development activities would be allowed on private land and areas of the forest that already have logging roads and infrastructure. There are more than ten billion board feet of timber along the existing forest road system that would not be affected by the Alaska Rainforest Conservation Act.

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