Our forests are in trouble, John.

A bill in Congress puts a target on the trunks of some of our country's oldest trees. It would require the U.S. Forest Service to prioritize cutting down trees in mature forests, which would be catastrophic.1

With our mature forests on the chopping block, we need to stand together for the trees.

Tell the U.S. Senate: Don't let them cut down our oldest forests.

Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and John Barrasso (Wyo.) have introduced a bill that calls for chopping down our mature forests. They want to deliberately cut down our future old-growth trees.

Towering trunks could soon be littering the forest floor.

We can't let that happen.

Once our mature forests are gone, they'll take decades to grow back. That's more than 80 years of an intricate ecosystem destroyed in the blink of an eye. That's decades we don't have to keep huge amounts of climate-warming carbon from being released into the atmosphere.

We need our forests to stay standing for generations to come, but this legislation threatens to level towering giants and destroy many of our nation's mature trees.

Send an urgent message to keep our forests off the chopping block.

We're already short on nature and healthy habitat for wildlife. Turning our oldest trees into stumps would leave wild animals and birds without their homes.

These are our most important trees, and shortsighted politicians are specifically targeting them. Destroying our oldest trees is a terrible idea.

Environment Colorado is ready to stand up for our forests and the critters that depend on them. We need to tell Congress not to log the trees that we love.

John, will you send a message to stop this reckless bill in its tracks?

Thank you,

Ellen Montgomery

1. "ICYMI: Manchin, Barrasso introduce legislation to reduce wildfire risk, improve forest health," Senator Joe Manchin, September 22, 2023.