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Hi John,
Black bears, bobcats, white-tailed deer, and more than 300 other species call the Nantahala-Pisgah Forest home.
But Trump's Forest Service wants to hand the keys to this priceless forest to Big Timber for record-breaking levels of clearcutting and logging.
This destruction of one of the country's most precious biodiversity hotspots can't be allowed, so the Center for Biological Diversity took the agency to court.
Please help us safeguard wildlife and wild places with a gift now to the Future for the Wild Fund. Your donation today will be doubled.
The Nantahala and Pisgah, in North Carolina, are two of the most visited and beloved public landscapes in the country. They're also some of the most biodiverse — with more than 130 kinds of trees and 1,900 plants.
Now the Forest Service wants them to be logged and cut down beyond recognition.
The Service's plan calls for expanding clearcutting to five times more than what's now allowed. It would also build roads deep into sensitive habitats.
This comes on the heels of Trump's executive order to ramp up logging on our federal forests — nearly one-third of forested lands in the United States. Another order, issued last week, directs commercial logging on more than 110 million acres.
Destroying forests poses a direct threat to wildlife and people, which is why plans like the one for the Nantahala-Pisgah are illegal.
Since January we've seen threats to forests, oceans, wetlands and other public lands — and endangered species — increase in frequency and severity.
But we've risen to the moment, taking legal action nearly every three days in defense of the natural world.
Saving species and their habitat from the greedy and corrupt forces moving so swiftly to tear them apart will take everything we've got.
Because the forces we're up against are so ruthless, please start a monthly donation to sustain our defense of the natural world.
For the wild,
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