Action against Road Building in Alaska

A hand painted sign warning about logging operations in the Tongass National Forest. The Bush administration revoked the roadless status of the Tongass allowing timber companies to build roads and clear cut the forest to the detriment of the environment and the animals.

Unique identifier: GP042IT

Type: Image

Shoot date: 04/08/2004

Locations: Alaska, Kupreanof Island, North America, Tongass National Forest, United States of America

Credit line: © Les Stone / Greenpeace

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Forest Blockade Action Tongass

Greenpeace activists and local residents stop road building and timber operations in the Tongass National Forest in an area of the rainforest where clear-cutting is taking place. They display a banner reading "Ancient Forest Protection Starts Here" and they suspend a specially engineered structure high over logging roads in pristine forest that is slated to be cut. Other volunteers place themselves in the path of trucks and bulldozers, while a group of Alaskans lock themselves to road building equipment. Greenpeace has set up these stations as part of its escalating campaign for a moratorium on industrial logging on public lands and for greater protection and restoration of endangered forests.

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