Protect the Tongass Campaign

GRANT NAME:
Protect the Tongass Campaign
GRANTEE:
Alaska Wilderness League
LOCATION
Washington, DC
AMOUNT
$30,000
Year
2009

To build grassroots support for legislation to protect areas in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest that have important biological, social and other values, restore high-value watersheds and streams previously damaged by logging and development, and transition the timber industry out of a reliance on old-growth logging to a sustainable second-growth timber program.