In 1879 on his first trip to Southeast Alaska in what is now the Tongass National Forest, naturalist and wilderness lover John Muir was overcome by the dramatic landscape. He first witnessed the region from aboard a passenger ship, sailing through the island...
The Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska, known as the “crown jewel” of the National Forest System, is America’s largest and wildest national forest. Nearly 17 million acres in size, the Tongass is the largest intact temperate rainforest on Earth. The...
Tongass Logging Project Suspended on Revilla Island 2016 In March of 2016, Crag successfully halted a commercial logging project that would have clear-cut 2,500 acres of the Tongass rainforest on Revillagigedo Island. Crag prepared a formal objection against the U.S....
Forest Service Cancels Controversial Old-Growth Tongass Timber Sale 2015 In October 2015, on behalf of five environmental organizations, Crag won a case against the U.S. Forest Service’s authorization of a timber sale on Mitkof Island in Tongass National Forest, which...
A View of the Summit – Spring 2020 A Vision For Natural Resilience and Human Strength Usually, spring is a time of renewal and optimism. I don’t have to tell you how different this year has been. On the one hand, we have not seen a pandemic like COVID-19 in our...
