by Bridget O'Brien | Aug 5, 2015 | Victories, Wild Victories
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...
by Oliver Stiefel | Jun 23, 2015 | Features, Wildlife News
A June 16, 2015 Memorandum issued by the State of Alaska Department of Fish and Game reported a 60% decline in the population of the Alexander Archipelago wolf in the Prince of Wales Island area between 2013 and 2014. The wolf species, endemic to the coastal...
by Crag Law Center | May 5, 2015 | Features, News, Public Lands News, Wildlife News
Crag Law Center is representing five environmental organizations in a lawsuit that challenges a plan to log the old-growth forests of Mitkof Island, near the Southeast Alaska community of Petersburg. On behalf of the groups, today Crag filed suit in Alaska District...
by Courtney Johnson | Sep 29, 2014 | Features, News, Wildlife News
The U.S. District Court in Anchorage issued a decision Friday on the Islands Wolf lawsuit centered in Southeast Alaska. The decision has now, for the second time, stopped four Tongass National Forest logging projects. Crag has represented Greenpeace and Cascadia...
by Crag Law Center | Aug 26, 2014 | Features, News, 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...
