On September 20, 2001, Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Connie Morella (R-MD) were joined by over 70 co-sponsors to introduce the Alaska Rainforest Conservation Act in the US House of Represenatives. The Act would provide legislative protections for the country's two largest national forests Alaska's Chugach and Tongass.

The Act would protect the Tongass and Chugach by:

• Designating Wilderness areas, Wilderness Study Areas and Wild and Scenic Rivers
  
• Protecting other wildlands by expanding "Land Use Designation II" (LUD II) areas, which are closed to commercial logging
  
• Protecting watersheds and critical wildlife habitat of Prince William Sound, The Copper River Delta and the Kenai Peninsula
  
• Expanding Admiralty Island National Monument to include Mansfield Peninsula
  
• Establishing Restoration Areas, where lands damaged in the past are rehabilitated and protected
  
• Establishing special management areas, where small-scale community-based resource management would be allowed but clearcutting and new, permanent road building would be prohibited
  

Download the PDF (arca_cnf.pdf , 919 Kb)

For more information, visit the Alaska Rainforest Campaign website.

Map by Jason Geck.

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