Defend the Tongass National Forest

The groups on this fight

4 groups work Alaska

By footprint, from the same match the STAND matchmaker runs; none is linked to this decision in our record yet. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.

• Alaska Wilderness League

  Works Alaska: built around defending the Arctic Refuge from oil and gas drilling.

• Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges

  Works Alaska: lead plaintiff in the November 2025 federal suit challenging the land exchange signed to put a road through the Izembek Wilderness.

• Southeast Alaska Conservation Council

  Works Alaska: southeast Alaska’s homegrown defender of the Tongass since 1970.

• The Wilderness Society

  Works Alaska: has litigated the 211-mile Ambler industrial road since the original 2020 approvals.

Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.

The Forest Service is kicking off a revision of the land management plan for Tongass National Forest in Alaska, which will guide how the forest is managed for years to come. They're also launching an environmental impact statement to assess the effects of any changes, and they're opening a public scoping period to collect input on what issues should be analyzed. This affects one of the largest national forests in the U.S., with implications for timber, wildlife, watersheds, and Indigenous communities across southeast Alaska.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service is revising the land management plan for the Tongass National Forest. This notice announces the Forest Service's initiation of the development of a revised land management plan (revised plan) and intent to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) to evaluate the effects of revising the current plan. This notice initiates the scoping period on the development of the proposed action and EIS. This notice also describes the documents and background resources available for review and how to obtain them; includes a description of the preliminary need to change t…

Federal Register 2026-03197 ↗

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