Thank Your Congressperson for Protecting the Tongass National Forest

Thank you is a word we probably don't say enough, but now is the time to do just that.

Please write your Congressional Representative today to thank him or her for voting yes on an amendment the House approved for the Interior budget. The Andrews-Chabot Amendment stops wasting taxpayer dollars building new logging roads in the Tongass National Forest, America's largest intact rainforest.

U.S. Representatives Robert E. Andrews (D-New Jersey, 1st) and Steve Chabot (R-Ohio, 1st) lead the bipartisan floor effort and deserve an additional thanks.

To let your representative know how much protecting the ecological integrity of the Tongass and the quality of life for southeast Alaska communities means to you, write your member of Congress, then click "Send this message."

Thank you!

Sample Letter for Campaign

Subject: Thank you for supporting the Andrews-Chabot Amendment and protecting the Tongass

Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,

Thank you very much for the "yes" vote you made on the Andrews-Chabot amendment to the Interior appropriations bill. I am exceptionally pleased that you chose to call on our government to stop wasting taxpayer dollars building new logging roads in the Tongass National Forest, America's largest intact rainforest.

The amendment's astounding victory sends a strong message to the Senate as it enters the final stages of its Interior appropriations process: The federal government must stop wasting tens of millions of our tax dollars on road-building subsidies in Alaska that are damaging an international treasure that attracts hunters, fishermen, and tourists from around the world.

I again thank you for your vote, and I encourage you to continuing protecting America's treasured public lands.

Sincerely,

Campaign Launched:
July 02, 2007

Background Information

Representatives Robert Andrews (D-NJ) and Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH) promoted an amendment to the Interior Appropriations bill that prohibited taxpayer dollars from being used to build new logging roads in the Tongass. Taxpayers lose an average of $40 million a year on needless road-building in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska. Since 1982, the Forest Service has wasted nearly $1 billion taxpayer dollars.

Your Congressperson is one of the 283 that voted yes on the amendment - putting a stop to the wasting of taxpayer dollars building new logging roads in the Tongass National Forest, America's largest intact rainforest.