by Nathan Newcomer | Jul 14, 2025 | Take Action, Tongass
Telling stories is essential to advocacy and we need your stories. You’re here, so you care about the Tongass — do you have a story about the Tongass? About your experiences sheltered by old growth? About hunting or fishing or harvesting? About making art...
by Nathan Newcomer | Jun 26, 2025 | Blog, Featured, Tongass
Things are happening fast. Early this week, a group of us from Southeast Alaska headed to the nation’s capital to lobby against the proposed sale of public lands, but we’ve had to pivot since hearing about Senator Mike Lee’s plans to revise his sell-off (as hard as...
by Nathan Newcomer | Jun 21, 2025 | Take Action, Tongass
As expected, the Trump administration announced its plans to rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule but, until a public comment period comes, all we can do is prepare and wait, right? Well, we can also tell our members of congress to support the Roadless Area...
by Nathan Newcomer | Jan 21, 2025 | Blog, Featured, Tongass
Well, that was fast. The Trump administration is making moves to repeal Roadless Rule protections for the Tongass with an executive order signed on January 20. We knew it was coming — between the Project 2025 manifesto and Governor Dunleavy’s rollback wishlist it...
by Nathan Newcomer | Jan 17, 2025 | Blog, Featured, Tongass
A new year often comes with a sense of hope and, despite what we know is ahead, we’re sticking with hope because we also know we can take on hard things together. Here’s a roundup of our forest-focused work, looking back a bit at 2024 and anticipating some of what’s...
by Nathan Newcomer | Aug 2, 2024 | Blog, Featured, Tongass
UPDATE: The comment period has closed! Thanks to everyone who commented! The National Old Growth Amendment was introduced by the USDA as “a first-of-its-kind proposal to amend all 128 forest land management plans” to conserve old-growth forest conditions in response...
by Nathan Newcomer | Jun 20, 2024 | Blog, Featured, Tongass
Big news for big trees? The Biden Administration has released draft plans for old-growth protections in our National Forests. What does that mean for the Tongass? Well, it’ll take some deep reading to know for sure, but you know we’re up to the challenge. Meanwhile,...
by Nathan Newcomer | Apr 3, 2024 | Blog, Featured
Earlier this year, Alaska’s (now former) State Forester, Helge Eng, said the Division of Forestry & Fire Prevention and the Alaska Mental Health Trust are “charged with essentially maintaining a timber supply to keep the (logging) industry going until federal...
