10K views · 109 reactions | Alaska’s Tongass National Forest is the largest national forest in the U.S.! Bigger than the state of West Virginia, the Tongass stretches along southeast Alaska’s coast and forms part of the world’s largest temperate rainforest. From towering trees to pristine coastlines, the Tongass is a breathtaking reminder of nature’s scale and beauty. | U.S. Forest Service | Facebook

Keep America’s largest national forest wild! Tell the U.S. Forest Service to conserve Alaska’s wild roadless areas to protect fish and wildlife habitat and hunting and fishing opportunity in the Tongass. | Backcountry Hunters & Anglers

The Tongass is one of the last, largest coastal temperate rainforests in the world yet at 10 a.m. ET tomorrow, the Senate Natural Resources Committee is hearing a bill that proposes to privatize 115,200 acres of these public lands. S.2554 would transfer large areas of public land in the Tongass into private corporate ownership, putting roadless old-growth forest at risk of industrial logging and development. The Tongass is a globally significant temperate rainforest, a carbon stronghold, and cri

The Tongass National Forest is home to species found nowhere else on Earth—and the Trump administration wants to hand it over to logging companies. After 25 years of protection and 600,000 comments from Americans saying 'hands off our wild forests,' they're STILL trying to eliminate the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Visit the 🔗 to let your Members of Congress know you want to protect these places: https://sc.org/akpubliclands | Sierra Club