Please join us for the next Forest Protection Forum from 4pm to 5:30pm on August 26!
We will watch “Crown Jewels,” a gorgeous film about old growth forests directed by forest activist and digital media creator Alex Haraus. Afterwards, Alex Craven, Sierra Club’s forest campaign manager, will discuss our opportunity to provide comments to protect old growth trees and forests on federal lands.
Sign up for the Forum.
Watch the film’s trailer.
Last year over 500,000 people wrote in to the U.S. Forest Service on behalf of old growth and mature forests! You may have been one of them. Now, the U.S. Forest Service is asking for our comments again.
In December 2023, the U.S. Forest Service proposed an amendment to all 128 forest plans across the U.S, to help guide the stewardship of federal old-growth forests while allowing local variations. The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for this proposal was released in June 2024. The U.S. Forest Service is asking for public comments through September 20, 2024.
Old-growth and mature trees and forests play an outstanding role for our climate, water supply, biodiversity, soil, and wildlife. This amendment represents a huge opportunity to protect old growth and future old growth forests from commercial logging. Unfortunately, in the current version, the opportunity is missed. The current draft does not provide sufficient protections.
You have an opportunity to add your voice. Please join us at the Forest Protection Forum to learn more, and to prepare to write your comments. If you cannot join the Forum, but want to write a comment, you can send a personal letter via https://www.sierraclub.org/protect-old-growth-forests or sign this petition https://www.climate-forests.org/protectourforests. In your comments, please be sure to ask the U.S. Forest Service to leave old-growth trees in the forest and to stop sending them to the mill.