John,

Our oldest trees are being chopped down. We should be conserving our nation's last stands of mature and old-growth trees -- but these old trees are being sold off to logging companies and turned into stumps.

Each stump is a gravestone, marked with decades of growth that ended in an instant.

We have less than three months to convince the U.S. Forest Service to preserve our precious forests. Now is the time to stand up to logging.

You only have until midnight tonight to have your gift matched, up to $25,000 nationwide. Will you donate now?

Thank you,

Ellen Montgomery

P.S. If you've already donated to our 2024 Fiscal Year-End Drive -- thank you! We may still be processing your gift.

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From: Environment Colorado <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, Jun 30, 2024
Subject: Chopped, sawed and bulldozed: America's oldest forests are in trouble
To: John xxxxxx <[email protected]>

John,

According to our records, we haven't received your donation to our 2024 Fiscal Year-End Drive yet to help defend our forests -- and the deadline is midnight tonight!

Our mature and old-growth forests are being chopped down. In the next three months, we have a chance to save them from logging, but we need you with us.

Will you donate now? Give before midnight tonight and it will be matched, dollar for dollar, up to $25,000 nationwide.

There's something truly breathtaking about standing among the oldest trees in America's national forests.

To feel the bark, smell the mossy wood, and sense the power of these majestic giants, some older than the country itself, that still stand tall from Vermont's Green Mountains to the Black Hills of South Dakota to Alaska's Tongass National Forest.

But there's an effort underway in the U.S. Senate to fast-track the logging of our oldest trees.

This legislation, sponsored by Senators Joe Manchin (W. Va.) and John Barrasso (Wyo.), would not only allow mature trees to be cut down but actually prioritize them for logging in the name of "forest management."1 We must stop this awful legislation.

Until midnight tonight, your gift to Environment Colorado's 2024 Fiscal Year-End Drive will be matched, up to $25,000 nationwide. Will you make a donation to help save America's forests?

You might think that the oldest trees in our national forests are already protected.

But there are more than 50 million acres of mature and old-growth forests on federal lands nationwide that are currently unprotected from logging.2

The Manchin-Barrasso bill -- with the Orwellian title the "Promoting Effective Forest Management Act" -- would paint a bullseye on these mature forests and fast-track them for logging.

The U.S. Forest Service is currently developing new protections for our oldest forests on federal land.3 But those protections could be fatally undermined if this bill becomes law.

We're mobilizing thousands of people to contact the U.S. Forest Service and Congress to defend our forests. But with chainsaws revving up, we're running short on time.

Please donate right now to our 2024 Fiscal Year-End Drive and help save our oldest trees. When you give before midnight tonight, your donation can have twice the impact.

Thank you,

Ellen Montgomery

1. "S.2867 - Promoting Effective Forest Management Act of 2023," Congress.gov, September 20, 2023.
2. Ellen Montgomery, "Save America's Oldest Forests," Environment America, June 13, 2023.
3. Matthew Brown, "Biden administration moves to protect old-growth forests as climate change brings fires, pests," Associated Press, December 19, 2023.

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