Forests
Keeping our forests healthy, whole and wild.
The trees that make up our forests are some of the oldest living things on Earth, many of them older than America itself. These forests provide crucial habitat for thousands of species. They provide limitless opportunities for recreation, exploration and wonder. What’s more, our forests absorb and store carbon dioxide, which makes them crucial allies in our race against climate change. Together we can protect our forests from road-building, logging, development and other threats.
The Latest on Forests
Biden administration announces plan to protect old-growth forests
The Giving Tree: What we can learn from a childhood favorite
Updates
Old-growth trees are being logged in Wisconsin
Conservation groups urge alternatives to environmentally harmful reservoir project
Texas cities get $31.6 million to plant trees
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The Biden administration has released $1 billion in funding for urban trees. Here’s why that matters.
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Petition to Costco to incorporate Scope 3 emissions into its carbon emissions reduction plan
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For millennia, ancient forests have watched over us and sustained us. Can we do the same for them?Will Harlan, Center for Biological Diversity
Will Harlan
"So when it comes to clean water, the first line of defense starts with mature and old growth forests. Preserving old growth trees coincides with improving water quality."Victoria Frankeny, Tualatin Riverkeepers
Victoria Frankeny
Protecting the intact public forests that remain are the keys to allowing forests to perform their natural role in regulating climate, while protecting communities from wildfires.Ric Bailey, North Cascades Conservation Council
Ric Bailey
Grassroots climate groups like mine, 350 Eugene, understand that forest defense is climate defense, and we're fierce.Patty Hine, 350 Eugene
Patty Hine
We must courageously acknowledge the disappearance of these towering trees, and then turn loss into decision. The old-growth forest is literally just a thought form away. We are the children of the children of the generation who cut the forest down. We can be the generation that chooses to bring it back.Nancy Stranahan, Arc of Appalachia
Nancy Stranahan
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FernGully: The Last Rainforest and the stories it teaches 30 years later
Why you should rewatch this 1992 children's flick
500,000 people call for mature and old-growth forest protections
Activists gathered near Forest Service headquarters in D.C. to deliver comments calling for mature and old-growth forest protections.
500,000 people ask Forest Service to protect mature forests from logging
Public comments submitted in support of forest conservation
Good news: Old growth trees in eastern Washington are off the chopping block
The Sanpoil project would have damanged the forests and old growth trees of the Kettle Range
Five summer reading books for the nature lover
Whether your ideal summer involves hiking every weekend, relaxing in a hammock or on a beach, or huddling inside enjoying the AC, here are five fiction reads nature lovers (and others) will enjoy.