Reijo Telaranta from Pixabay County commissioners and city council members are questioning the decisions of the Department of Natural Resources and the Legislature to log mature forests. The benefit to rural communities is often less from logging than most people know. Read the story from the Seattle Times Op-Ed.
OCA Signs onto Letter Urging Biden to Protect Older Federal Forests from Logging
Dear President Biden, Agriculture Secretary Vilsack, and U.S. Forest Service Chief Moore, We the undersigned organizations write to express our deep concern with the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Forest Services’ proposed Amendment to Land Management Plans to Address Old-Growth Forests Across the National Forest System. In compliance with the President’s Executive Order …
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Feds: Get real about protecting our older forests
OCA just signed on to this NGO letter asking the Biden administration to strengthen protections of our older forests in its proposed National Old-Growth Amendment. Main points: None of the alternatives include language to prohibit logging of old growth, only a vague statement of desired condition. The final plan should end the cutting and selling …
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OCA signs on: Stop logging mature/old-growth fed forests!
TemperateSage -- Pixabay The OCA Board of Directors unanimously agreed to sign onto this petition, from The John Muir Project alongside a coalition of over 200 conservation, climate, and social justice organizations, as well as 200 leading scientists, urging President Joe Biden to issue an executive order halting logging inall mature and old-growth forests on …
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New Trees Are No Substitute for Old Trees
The fires in Canada underscore the need to let our current mature forest grow old. Warmer and drier conditions will weaken this resistance and make even these mature forests more prone to wildfire. This is very likely an important factor with the fires currently burning in Canada. | Megan Albu/AFP/Getty Images Across America, forests on …
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Carpe Diem Moment on Forests and Climate Policy
"Include mature forests … not just old growth" "Nationwide MOG protections would establish U.S. leadership on the Paris Climate Agreement (natural sinks and reservoirs) and the Glasgow Forest Pledge to end deforestation and forest degradation. It would demonstrate progress toward 30 x 30 and present a global model for effective forest and climate response. "Most …
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