by Oliver Stiefel | Nov 29, 2018 | Features, News, Public Lands News, Wildlife News
Crag and clients Greenpeace and Cascadia Wildlands have scored a huge win for old-growth forests and wildlife in Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. Crag brought the “Islands Wolf” lawsuit against the Forest Service all the way back in 2008....
by Elliott Davis | Jul 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
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 CRAG Law Center | Jun 13, 2018 | Features, Native Fish News, Public Lands News
Today Crag Law Center along with Amy Atwood of The Center for Biological Diversity filed a complaint against the Oregon Department of Forestry for poor logging and road-use practices in the Tillamook and Clatsop state forests that harm threatened coho salmon through...
by Oliver Stiefel | Jul 22, 2016 | Public Lands News
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...
by Oliver Stiefel | Mar 15, 2016 | Features, News, Public Lands News
The Alaska Regional Forester has put a major logging project in the Tongass National Forest on hold, in response to administrative objections filed by Crag’s clients. The Saddle Lakes Timber Sale, located near Ketchikan on Revillagigedo Island, called for about...
