Hello Alaska Advocates -
 
Now for something different! Please take a moment and send a letter to
help protect the Kuiu Island in the Tongass National Forest from
clearcutting. Apologize - but deadline for letters to be a part of the
official record is Monday March 20. 
 
Thank you,
Lois Norrgard
Regional Organizer
Alaska Coalition
10368 Columbus Circle
Bloomington MN 55420
ph/fx: 952.881-7282
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We need your help to stop this attack on the rainforest habitat of
abundant 
populations of black bears and salmon, which is of vital importance to
Native 
Alaskans.

Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/tongass/takeaction.asp
and tell the Forest Service you oppose the Kuiu timber sale, which would
use 
taxpayer dollars to build roads and clearcut this island refuge.

Last year, in response to an NRDC lawsuit, a federal judge ruled that a 
management plan calling for large-scale clearcut logging in the Tongass 
National Forest was illegal. Nonetheless, the Forest Service is now
pushing 
forward with newly proposed timber sales on Kuiu Island and in other
sensitive 
habitat areas.

Decades of clearcutting have already devastated much of Kuiu Island.
Continued 
logging there would destroy key habitat for one of the highest densities
of 
black bears in North America, as well as Sitka black-tailed deer, marten,

wolves, several species of salmon and the rare Queen Charlotte goshawk.

This remote area of southeastern Alaska provided hunting, fishing and
gathering 
grounds to Native Alaskans for hundreds of years.

Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/tongass/takeaction.asp
right away and urge the Forest Service to cancel the Kuiu timber sale.

Thank you for taking action to save our last wild national forests.

Sincerely,

Frances Beinecke
President
Natural Resources Defense Council
 
 

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