Action against Road Building in Alaska

A Greenpeace activist hangs under a tripod part of an elaborate blockade closing a new road in Tongass National Forest in an area of the Alaskan rainforest being clear-cut.

Unique identifier: GP042J5

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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