John,

Chainsaws tearing through a 100-year-old tree.

Tree trunks slammed down with bulldozers.

Vast stands of old-growth toppled in minutes.

These are the logging practices chopping down our oldest trees. But our mature and old-growth forests are worth far more if they're left standing.

Do you oppose logging our oldest forests? Help us reach our $75,000 goal to defend the trees and donate today.

Thousands of acres of mature and old-growth trees are slated for clearcutting.1

Clearcutting chops down the entire stand of forest -- no tree is left standing. Instead, a graveyard of stumps is left behind. One clearcutting method uses feller bunchers, heavy equipment that cuts down and collects several trees at once.2

It could get even easier to chop down the oldest trees in our forests if more logging projects become exempt from environmental reviews.

Even when logging is more selective, it still does an incredible amount of damage to a forest ecosystem.

Chainsaws are the most basic logging tool. After an old tree is marked and sawed down, it's then dragged on the forest floor by skidders. As the shorn trunk thuds through the undergrowth, it tears up the soil and damages the forest floor.3

The oldest trees deep into the forest aren't even safe from logging. Heli-logging makes it easier to cut down trees that logging companies normally couldn't reach. They bring in helicopters to pull trees directly out of the forest.4

No matter how they get cut down, losing our oldest trees to logging will scar our forests for decades.

Will you donate to stop unchecked logging in our oldest forests?

Yes, I'll donate to help protect our oldest forests.

There are very few untouched forest areas left in America, and the logging industry wants to cut down even more of our mature and old-growth trees.

We're beating back attempts to increase logging in our oldest forests and stop the worst logging projects from moving forward.

We're also urging Costco and other companies to commit to not sell toilet paper made from critical habitat in the boreal forest, our world's largest intact forest.

And, we're shoring up public support to keep roadless protections intact for the Tongass and other forests that could soon be on the chopping block.

Donate to Environment Colorado's Earth Day 2025 Drive to help protect our forests from logging.

Thank you,

Ellen Montgomery

1. Ellen Montgomery, "Threatened Forests," Environment America, May 19, 2023.
2. "Heavy Equipment Used in Logging Operations," San Forestry, April 23, 2024.
3. Brian M. Parkhurst, et. al., "Soil response to skidder trafficking and slash application," International Journal of Forest Engineering, January 9, 2018.
4. "Helicopter Extraction," U.S. Forest Service, last accessed April 6, 2025.

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