This summer is a critical moment to defend our forests

With logging projects encroaching on our oldest trees, we need to call on the U.S. Forest Service to protect these forests now.

Forests

Jim Scheff, Kentucky Heartwood | Used by permission
Little Flat Creek area proposed for clearcutting.

America’s national forests are home to hundreds of thousands of acres of our last remaining old-growth forests — but the U.S. Forest Service continues to allow these trees to be chopped down.

We’ve identified 22 different logging projects threatening mature and old-growth trees on federal lands from Vermont to Alaska. In some of these priceless forests, the threat of logging is imminent. In others, clear-cutting is already underway.

That’s why right now is crunch time for these precious old-growth forests, and why we’re campaigning to help stop these egregious projects from going forward.

Your support is vital to helping us save forests

To protect our oldest forests, we need the U.S. Forest Service to finalize a new amendment to keep our mature and old-growth forests off-limits to logging. With your support, we’ve rallied thousands to take action to defend mature and old-growth trees by sending messages to the Forest Service and urging the agency to do the right thing.

The Forest Service is the agency directly responsible for many currently threatened forests, but that doesn’t mean our campaign to defend mature and old-growth trees ends there. We’re also helping forest defenders nationwide send thousands of messages directly to President Biden.

Together, we’re urging important decision makers to take action to protect older forests and trees on public lands in the United States from logging, and to ensure federal agencies work to recover these carbon rich landscapes for their climate, biodiversity, and watershed benefits to our nation.

But with chainsaws revving up, we’re running short of time.

What forests are at risk of logging this summer?

The mature and old-growth forests currently targeted by logging projects include areas in the Black Hills of South Dakota, the Green Mountains of Vermont, the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, and right on the doorstep of Yellowstone National Park.

Every single one of these forests is vitally important — and if their oldest trees are chopped down now, they will never be the same again within our lifetimes.

These forests provide vital habitat for endangered species, help filter clean drinking water for millions of Americans, and absorb massive amounts of carbon pollution that would otherwise go into our atmosphere and accelerate climate change.

Staff | TPIN
We're building support to defend forests across the country, including in Oregon.

How you can help protect forests right now

It’s unfathomable that the U.S. Forest Service would allow the logging industry to cut down these magnificent trees — but how can we stop it?

Working together is our best chance to turn the tides and ensure a safe future for these forests. By supporting our work, you will help ensure that we can keep connecting forest defenders with opportunities to defend mature and old-growth trees by contacting key decision makers at critical moments. 

Donate today to support all of the work we do advocating for our nation’s precious, one-of-a-kind forests.

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