by Elliott Davis | Jul 25, 2018 | Native Fish News, Public Lands News, Public Lands Recent Cases, The Wild Recent Cases, Wildlife News, Wildlife Recent Cases
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... 
by Suzanne Savell | Aug 26, 2014 | Features, News & Victories, Wildlife News
Today, the Crag Law Center filed a new lawsuit to stop a Forest Service project that would log more than 6,000 acres of irreplaceable old-growth temperate rainforest in Southeast Alaska. The Big Thorne timber sale is planned on the Tongass National Forest and would... 
by Chris Winter | Aug 3, 2011 | News & Victories, Public Lands News, Wildlife News
Crag recently won a key victory in the fight to preserve old-growth forest and wildlife habitat in the Tongass National Forest. In the case – Greenpeace v. Cole – the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals threw out four old-growth timber sales that would have logged...