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| Dear Friend, |
| In a win for the trees and our climate, President Biden announced on Earth Day last year an important first step toward safeguarding mature and old-growth forests on federal lands. With help from advocates like you, he signed an executive order directing agencies to inventory mature and old-growth forests on federal lands — and to develop policies to protect them. Since that time, the Biden administration also restored the roadless rule in the Tongass National Forest, the largest national forest in the United States. |
| Together, we have urged the administration to protect mature and old-growth forests to address our climate and biodiversity crises and the president has heeded our calls. We need the administration to commit to creating a strong, lasting, national rule that protects mature and old-growth trees across federal lands from logging. |
| Safeguarding and expanding carbon-rich forests on Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management lands is one of the most important, cost-effective, and immediately available strategies to fight the climate crisis. Older trees accumulate and store enormous amounts of carbon over many centuries and provide vital wildlife habitat, clean water, clean air, and mitigation for floods and droughts. Larger, older trees are also more fire resistant. |
| Unfortunately, mature forests and trees on federal lands are threatened by numerous proposed and ongoing logging projects, in spite of the executive order to conserve them. We need to ensure America's mature and old-growth trees and forests remain in place to mitigate climate change, and to maintain their natural benefits for future generations. |
| The President's bold action rightly recognizes the importance of mature and old-growth forests and trees. Protecting them is exactly the direction federal forest management needs to move. We need your help to make sure federal agencies fulfill the intention of the executive order as quickly as possible and take the next step to issue a rule to protect mature and old-growth trees from logging in America's federal forests. |
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Sincerely,
Blaine Miller-McFeeley
Senior Legislative Representative |
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