John,

One of the biggest forests on Earth is being devoured by logging.1 Trees that stood for centuries are reduced to 2x4s and a pile of sawdust.

We shouldn't be mowing down one of our planet's last intact forests for lumber.

Tell Home Depot: Don't sell wood from critical boreal forest habitat.

Thank you for standing with us,

Ellen Montgomery

1. Ian Austen and Vjosa Isai, "Canada's Logging Industry Devours Forests Crucial to Fighting Climate Change," The New York Times, January 4, 2024.

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From: Environment Colorado <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, December 2, 2024
Subject: Tell Home Depot: Don't sell wood from critical boreal forest habitat
To: John xxxxxx <[email protected]>

John,

As soon as the doors of Home Depot slide open, the smell of sawdust fills your nose.

Those scraps of sawdust were once the fibers of a mighty tree, now reduced to a stack of 2x4s in the lumber aisle.

Canada's forests -- including the boreal -- are a key part of Home Depot's wood supply.1

And the boreal forest is crumbling to sawdust before our eyes. Tell Home Depot: Don't sell wood from critical habitat in the boreal forest.

Every minute, this forest loses about 2 acres of trees to logging.2

Our planet's towering forests have been chopped down acre by acre. Now, a solemn few of our forests remain intact.

The boreal forest still sits like a green crown atop North America, stretching from the western edge of Alaska to the shores of Newfoundland. It's the largest intact forest we have left on Earth -- but this green crown could fall if rampant logging continues.3

Every minute we wait to act, the nesting ground for billions of birds is chopped away.4

Take action now: The Home Depot should do more to protect the boreal forest.

When you step into Home Depot, the earthy smell of fresh lumber fills the air and a light coating of sawdust litters the floor. No matter what home improvement project you're working on, the noise of a saw echoes across the store from the lumber aisle.

That lumber might become a deck or a cabinet or a fence post -- but it won't be a tree growing in a forest ever again.

When those trees were cut down, the gentle pine scent of the forest was choked by fumes from chainsaws and bulldozers. The light chirping birdsong was replaced with the sound of trees smacking the forest floor.

We shouldn't be mowing down one of our planet's last intact forests to make decks and cabinetry.

Don't let the logging industry chop the boreal forest into 2x4s.

Sign our petition to Home Depot today.

Thank you,

Ellen Montgomery

1. "The Home Depot Sustainable Forestry Report," The Home Depot, January, 2024.
2. Ellen Montgomery and Sammy Herdman, "Threatened by logging, the boreal forest needs our help," Environment America, September 27, 2022.
3. Jeffrey Wells, et. al., "The State of Conservation in North America's Boreal Forest: Issues and Opportunities," Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, July, 2020.
4. "Boreal Forest," Boreal Songbird Initiative, last accessed November 11, 2024.