John,

North America's boreal forest is the world's largest remaining intact forest and home to a marvelous array of wildlife.1

Every year, 1 million acres of the boreal forest is logged -- that's the equivalent of losing 1.5 football fields' worth of forest per minute.2

So this Giving Tuesday, Environment Colorado is calling on Home Depot, the nation's biggest home-improvement retailer, to not sell wood from critical habitat in the boreal forest.

And today only, every dollar we raise up to $40,000 will be matched by a group of our most generous supporters.

Make a Giving Tuesday donation to help save the trees. Donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar.

The North American boreal forest is one of the most environmentally valuable ecosystems on the planet, containing 25% of the world's remaining undisturbed forest and more surface freshwater than anywhere else on the planet.3

Half of all bird species in Canada and the U.S. rely on the boreal, with 3 to 5 billion birds flying south to our backyards and parks every winter. The boreal also provides critical habitat for threatened species including wolves, cougars, lynxes, woodland caribou, moose, grizzly bears and polar bears.4

In addition, the boreal is absolutely critical to tackling global warming, storing more than 200 billion tons of carbon and twice as much carbon as tropical forests per acre.5,6

Clearly, this wild and environmentally critical place should be protected. Home Depot has the opportunity to help protect these vanishing forests by making sure none of its wood products are sourced from critical habitat and undeveloped areas in the boreal.

Will you make a Giving Tuesday donation to help save the boreal forest? Give before midnight and your gift will be matched.

Giving Tuesday is one of the most important fundraising days of the year, and it's critical for all of our campaigns that we meet our goal.

And today, your contribution can have double the impact for our environment. If you give $5, we'll get $10. If you give $50, we'll get $100. And if you give $500, we'll get $1,000.

It's an incredible opportunity for you to leverage the power of your donation to unlock even more support for Environment Colorado and our work to preserve old-growth forests, save the bees, tackle plastic pollution, and more.

But this special Giving Tuesday offer is for today only. Donate now to double your impact and claim your donor match.

Thank you,

Ellen Montgomery

1. "Boreal Forest," Boreal Songbird Initiative, last accessed November 14, 2024.
2. Ellen Montgomery and Sammy Herdman, "Threatened by logging, the boreal forest needs our help," Environment America, September 27, 2022.
3. "Fast Facts," Boreal Songbird Initiative, last accessed November 14, 2024.
4. "Fast Facts," Boreal Songbird Initiative, last accessed November 14, 2024.
5. Jeffrey V. Wells, et. al., "The State of Conservation in North America's Boreal Forest: Issues and Opportunities," Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, July 29, 2020.
6. "Fast Facts," Boreal Songbird Initiative, last accessed November 14, 2024.

Your donation will be used to support all of our campaigns to protect the environment, from saving the bees and protecting public lands, to standing up for clean water and fighting climate change. None of our work would be possible without supporters like you. Environment Colorado may transfer up to $50 per dues-paying member per year into the Environment Colorado Small Donor Committee.