'It doesn’t seem like anybody is screaming the sky is falling and it is.' Via MotherJones
The WECAN Indigenous Women's Tongass Delegation on Capitol Hill, Washington DC.Melissa Lyttle “If we had dressed in office clothing to meet the standards of DC,” says Wanda Culp, who wore vibrant red, blue, and black robes, “we would have just melted into the crowds that were going into those offices every 15 to 30 minutes.”
“I grew up when the forest was all the way around us. It was a better place to live. Then the logging started,” says Jackson. “We are looking out not only for the next few generations, but seven generations ahead of us. What are we going to leave their children?” As Culp and other native people know, the fight started long before this summer. After years of activism, the Roadless Rule, which is enforced by the USDA Forest Service, was established in 2001. The rule protects over 50 million acres of roadless areas throughout the US, but 19 days after it was adopted, the State of Alaska filed a lawsuit to challenge its protection of the Tongass.
Opportunities for growth and opportunity in the Tongass may not be restricted to reviving the timber and mining industries in Southeast Alaska though. According to a 2018 report by the Southeast Conference, a regional development organization, the timber industry accounts for less than 1 percent of employment in Southeast Alaska and mining constitutes just 2 percent of jobs.
There is no group more vulnerable to the destruction of the Tongass than indigenous groups who hunt, fish, and gather in the forest, especially given the importance of the forest in fighting climate change. “Everything that we harvest off the land is being changed because of this global warming issue,” Culp explains. “It doesn’t seem like anybody is screaming the sky is falling and it is.”
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