Our country’s old forests need protection from logging
Our country’s oldest trees are some of our strongest allies in fighting climate change — but they need our protection to keep standing tall.
Ellen
Montgomery
Director, Public Lands Campaign, Environment America
Started on staff: 2001
B.A., Oberlin College
Ellen runs campaigns to protect America’s beautiful places, from local beachfronts to remote mountain peaks. Prior to her current role, Ellen worked as the organizing director for Environment America’s Climate Defenders campaign. Ellen lives in Denver, where she likes to hike in Colorado’s mountains.
Posts by Ellen Montgomery
EPA takes next step to protect Bristol Bay from the Pebble Mine
The EPA released a recommended determination to use powers vested from the Clean Water Act to protect wild Sockeye Salmon headwaters from a proposed gold and copper mine
Join us on a hike — in photos — through three types of forests
America is home to more than 800 million acres of forests and woodlands — but not all forests are alike. Learn more about our boreal, temperate and tropical forests.
Oil companies are pulling out of the Arctic Refuge. Let’s make sure they never go back.
There are no more oil companies with leases in the Arctic National Wildlife refuge. And Knik Arm Services is out, too. That leaves AIDEA as the sole leaseholder.
