Tell Costco: Save the boreal forest
Urge Costco to make its Kirkland Signature tissue products from at least 50% recycled materials and refuse to sell other brands of tissue products until they implement the same change.
Preserve Our Forests
For the sake of wildlife and our climate, we must protect our remaining forests from logging, development and other threats.
Our planet needs tall trees. Thriving old growth forests, untouched for centuries by logging and development, are crucial habitat for thousands of species. The longer a tree grows, the more time forest ecosystems have to develop, providing homes for birds who need tall trees, for critters who need undergrowth and every species in between. What’s more, older trees absorb and store more carbon dioxide than younger trees, helping us to fight climate change.
Our remaining wild forests are threatened by road-building and industrial logging. Just a few years ago, the Trump administration rolled back protection on 9.2 million acres of roadless areas in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, our country’s largest national forest. Every section of mature or old growth forest that is logged or has a road built through it will take centuries to recover. We are facing a biodiversity crisis and a climate crisis. We should not be destroying habitat and some of our most valuable natural carbon sinks.
Take action today to help protect our national forests and keep our ancient trees standing tall.
Let’s explore the Tongass together
What You Can Do
Team
Blackledge
Steve
Blackledge
Senior Director, Conservation America Campaign, Environment America
Montgomery
Ellen
Montgomery
Director, Public Lands Campaign, Environment America
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