Save America’s Oldest Forests
Our mature and old-growth forests are a natural treasure worth protecting but many of them are threatened by logging.
Tell the Biden Administration: Protect our oldest trees
Tell the administration: protect mature and old-growth trees and forests.
Environment America has one mission: to protect the natural world.
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Across America, thousands of facilities that store or move oil, toxic chemicals or coal ash are located near waterways. These facilities are accidents waiting to happen.
You have to go into this work knowing that we are playing the long game, but it’s worth it. Because we are seeing real change happen right before our eyes.Celeste Meiffren-Swango, Beyond Plastic Campaign Director, Environment America
We’re seeing real change happen
We must speak for the trees—and the whole living tapestry woven around them.Ed Chadd, Olympic Climate Action
Ed Chadd, Olympic Climate Action
Exploring for berries and mushrooms, listening for birdsong, and rinsing my hands in cold clear forest streams are experiences I can only get in ancient forests, where logging and most other human development aren't evident.Chandra LeGue, Oregon Wild
Chandra LeGue, Oregon Wild
If there was ever a time to speak for the trees, it is now. Our mature and old growth forests are begging for us to not look away.Whitney Hamblin, Kentucky Heartwood
Whitney Hamblin, Kentucky Heartwood
For millennia, ancient forests have watched over us and sustained us. Can we do the same for them?Will Harlan, Center for Biological Diversity
