As part of a coordinated regional action of the Pacific Northwest Forest Climate Alliance, OCA members held banners supporting protection of our older forests on Monday morning at the Black Diamond overpass over Hwy 101. Similar banners were dropped over I-5 from southern Oregon to the Canadian border. Activists across the state are calling upon the state Department of Natural Resources to put a halt to further timber sales in so-called Legacy Forests, which were last cut prior to the end of World War II and were not regenerated in industrial-plantation style. These older forests, comprising about 75,000 acres or 6% of the state’s forest portfolio, are carbon workhorses, essential in efforts to stem climate change and biodiversity loss.
North Olympic Peninsula residents addressing human-made climate disruption. Washington State, U.S.A.
Olympic Climate Action 