Tell your senator: Protect America's oldest forests

Tell your senator: Protect America’s oldest forests

Mature and old-growth forests are irreplaceable, interconnected ecosystems, developed over centuries. They provide critical wildlife habitat, filter our drinking water, and offer opportunities to hike, climb, fish, and hunt. However, more than 50 million acres of mature and old-growth forests on federal lands are not protected from road-building, industrial logging, and mining.

Send a message to your senator calling for the protection of America’s oldest forests.

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Subject: Protect America's oldest forests

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Mature and old-growth forests are irreplaceable, interconnected ecosystems, developed over centuries. They provide critical habitat for thousands of species, many of them endangered. They also naturally filter water that will eventually become drinking water for millions of Americans. Additionally, mature and old-growth forests are some of our favorite places to hike, climb, fish, and hunt.

However, more than 50 million acres of old-growth and mature forests on federal lands are not protected from road-building, industrial logging, and mining. Development in these forests puts wildlife habitat, clean water, and outdoor recreation on the chopping block.

Don't let roads, logging, and mining destroy our last remaining wild forests. Americans deserve to experience these incredible places for future generations. But to ensure that we have mature and old-growth forests in the future, we must act to protect them today.

The United States must stop logging old-growth trees in federal forestlands and end all commercial exchange of old-growth trees. We must also severely limit the logging of mature trees. We urge you to advocate for the protection of America's oldest forests.

Sincerely,

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