Save the Alaskan Rainforest - 生態環境討論

We urgently need your help to protect Alaska's Tongass National Forest, which
is now imperiled by timber industry allies in the Bush administration.

The Timber Products Company, which makes various types of plywood, veneer and
laminate products, is currently negotiating with government officials in Alaska
to re-open a veneer mill in Ketchikan that would jeopardize wild and roadless
areas in the Tongass by increasing demand for ancient trees.

The Forest Service is exploiting the possible re-opening of the mill as an
excuse to undermine the "roadless rule" that protects our wild national
forests -- and to exempt the Tongass from the rule altogether.

Please go to
http://www.savebiogems.org/tongass/takeaction.asp?step=2&item=10105
and send a message urging the president and CEO of the Timber Products Company
to withdraw immediately from negotiations to re-open the mill.

The Tongass National Forest's 17 million acres of glacial fjords, volcanic
mountains, misty rainforests, giant conifers and luxurious tundra contain rich
salmon spawning grounds and prime grizzly bear and wolf habitat. They also
boast the world's densest population of bald eagles.

In 2002, the U.S. Forest Service spent $34 million preparing logging projects
and building logging roads in the Tongass -- it makes no sense to increase
these taxpayer subsidies to industry by promoting even more logging.

But the potential re-opening of the Ketchikan mill would help the Forest
Service justify any decision to exempt the Tongass from protection and clear
the way for chainsaws.

Please defend the Tongass by going to
http://www.savebiogems.org/tongass/takeaction.asp?step=2&item=10105
right now and telling the president of the Timber Products Company to withdraw
from negotiations to re-open the Ketchikan veneer mill. Tell him that if he
continues to endanger America's greatest temperate rainforest, you will work
with NRDC to lodge protests with the retail stores that sell his company's
products.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
John H. Adams
President
Natural Resources Defense Council

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