Trump’s executive order could destroy the U.S.’ largest national forest, the Tongass! We have 13 days to flood the U.S. Forest Service with public comments ADD YOUR NAME

Andy,

We have seen this sad show before. During his first term, Trump revoked Roadless Rule protections for more than 44 million acres of national forest land. Activists like you, Greenpeace USA, and movement allies around the nation fought back, in the streets and in the courts, and we won. Now, in 2025, Trump’s extinction administration has embarked on yet another plan for environmental destruction, trying to bring logging to the U.S.’s largest intact temperate rainforest — the Tongass National Forest in Alaska. 

Here’s the good news: In 2020, the U.S. Forest Service received a quarter of a million public comments in response to the draft proposal — 96% of which voiced support for safeguarding the Roadless Rule. Time and time again, the public has demanded this administration abandon its destructive policies in the Tongass, and now it’s time to speak up again. We have 13 days left to weigh in and use the proposal’s formal public comment period to protect rare wolves and other wildlife that live in the Tongass.
 

Tell the U.S. Forest Service: the Tongass is a national treasure and critical to a climate stable future — no logging, no mining, no corporate giveaways of our precious untouched public lands!

The Tongass has been protected for decades in substantial part by the 2001 Roadless Rule, which bans all forms of development and construction in areas of our public lands that are roadless, intact, and largely untouched. Trump has given instructions to start the rollback on environmental protections which will pave the way for massive logging. 

Destruction of the Tongass National Forest is a slap in the face to Native Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian peoples who are fighting to protect their ancestral homeland and this area with deep cultural and spiritual significance. It also will be at the cost of rare wildlife – such as Archipelago wolves, Sitka black-tailed deer, Northern Goshawks, and Grizzly Bears. We can win this fight but we need your voice to do it. Here's why: Even if the government moves forward with this corrupt plan, your comments can be used in court to support future lawsuits against this destructive scheme. It all adds up and allows our movement to hold the line against Trump's extinction plan.

Tell the U.S. Forest Service to say NO to this corporate giveaway allowing logging and mining in this climate-critical ecosystem. The Tongass forest and the health of its wildlife depend on your voice.

Greenpeacers like you have been working tirelessly to protect this forest for over 25
years. You have helped ensure it is still the largest intact National Forest. We will not give up now.

Our planet cannot afford profit-driven policies that devastate forests and other ecosystems that help suck global warming pollution out of the atmosphere. Trump’s attack on the Tongass will do just that. But with enough people power, we can change the course of the current administration’s corrupt plan. We have defended the Tongass time and time again and the forest needs your help right now.

This administration needs to know you won't stand for this corporate giveaway. You have until September 19th to add your name to our public comment and speak up against the Tongass’ destruction.

With respect and unrelenting solidarity, 

Amy Moas, Ph.D.
Greenpeace USA, Senior Climate Campaigner

P.S. At a time when we are losing climate-defending forests all over the world in the Amazon, Indonesia, and Congo Basin, public forests in the U.S. are under attack as Trump tries to cash out nature for corporations. Now he wants to give away one of the most vital and unique national forests to logging companies. Speak up for Tongass preservation now.