The League’s Andy Moderow talks Tongass

Gary Strieker of This American Land spoke with our own Alaska director, Andy Moderow, about the Tongass and the Trump administration’s push to remove Roadless Rule protections.

The Tongass National Forest in Alaska now faces a revival of logging threats. The Trump administration wants to lift federal protective rules and allow logging in the Tongass that could result in clear-cutting old-growth trees and destroying areas of temperate rainforest habitat that makes the Tongass so special for biodiversity and as a buffer against climate change.

The Tongass is America’s Amazon, and Gary Strieker of the podcast This American Land spoke with the League’s Alaska director, Andy Moderow, about the Tongass and the Trump administration’s push to remove Roadless Rule protections — a move that would expose 9 million acres of national forest to old-growth logging. Listen below.