The U.S. Forest Service recently approved 12,000 acres of logging, including more than 1,000 acres of clearcutting, for the Fourmile Project in Northern Wisconsin’s Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest (CNNF). ELPC filed comments in objection to the Forest Service’s finding that the project would have “no significant impact” on the environment. The Forest Service did not conduct a full Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), as required by law

Scientists warn this massive project will disturb forest habitats, degrade recreation, and disrupt struggling species like the endangered American pine marten and the threatened wood turtle. In addition to legal comments, ELPC gathered over a thousand signatures telling the Forest Service to stop and study the project before rushing approval, to protect the Northwoods ecosystem and recreation economy. To add your voice, click here. To learn more, read Senior Policy Advocate Andy Olsen’s blog here, or Science Advisory Council chair Don Waller’s Op-Ed here.

ELPC’s sister organization, ELPC Action Fund, is launching a summer ad campaign in southwest Wisconsin to educate the public on the Trump EPA’s record on clean water. The ad campaign will follow the theme of “watch what they do, not what they say.” The administration claims to have a good record on protecting clean water, but ELPC Action Fund is connecting the dots to show that is not the case. The facts are that this administration is dismantling clean water protections and putting safe, clean drinking water at risk.