Missoula, MT - Today, a coalition of conservation groups participated in the first day of a three-day meeting held by the U.S. Forest Service intended to reach a resolution on objections the agency received in response to the highly-controversial revised Nez Perce-Clearwater Land Management Plan, also known as a Forest Plan. At the meeting, conservationists decried the agency’s failure to offer meaningful changes in response to the unprecedented level of public participation demanding the revised plan better safeguard wildlife and habitat.
Conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service today for failing to protect streams in the Cherry River watershed from the harmful effects of coal hauling in the Monongahela National Forest.
The U.S. Forest Service announced on Thursday the grantees of its Urban and Community Forestry Program, distributing over $1 billion across 385 proposals.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- More than 460,000 people have submitted public comments to the U.S. Forest Service calling for the agency to adopt a rule that protects mature and old-growth trees and forests on federal land as a cornerstone of U.S. climate policy. Environment America Research & Policy Center and Sierra Club on Thursday delivered some of those public comments to the U.S. Forest Service office in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- More than 410,000 people have submitted public comments to the U.S. Forest Service calling for the agency to adopt a rule that protects mature and old-growth trees and forests on federal land as a cornerstone of U.S. climate policy.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Biden administration reinstated the so-called 'roadless rule' to fully restore environmental protections to Tongass National Forest in Alaska. The move once again safeguards the remaining areas of southeast Alaska’s unroaded forests from destructive logging and road-building, extends new protections for the forest, and dedicates $25 million in federal spending to local sustainable development in Alaska.
Today, the US Forest Service (USFS) announced they will be accepting applications for a 20 member Federal Advisory Committee that will provide formal recommendations to guide the USFS in revising the Northwest Forest Plan. The Northwest Forest Plan area consists of 19 million acres of federal forest lands in western Washington, western Oregon, and northwest California, and the Advisory Committee will provide advice on how to manage this landscape to promote sustainability, climate adaptations, and wildfire resilience. Sierra Club looks forward to supporting this effort and ensuring the Plan’s benefits from the last three decades can continue into the future.
As world leaders gather to address the climate crisis, U.S. land management agencies are undermining President Joe Biden’s commitment to conserve mature and old-growth forests and trees by logging thousands of acres on public lands that serve as climate-saving carbon sinks, according to a new report.
On Friday, October 28 at 7 pm ET, Sierra Club Connecticut Chapter will be hosting the Remington Woods Town Hall, in partnership with the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Division. Graduate school students from the Yale School of the Environment will share their present findings on conservation pathways for Remington Woods. Members of the community are invited to share their vision and hopes for Remington Woods and members of the media are welcome to attend the listening session and ask questions to the participants.
Environmental groups delivered more than 122,000 public comments today urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) to protect mature and old-growth forests and trees on federal public lands as a cornerstone of U.S. climate policy.
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on the Wildfire Response and Drought Resiliency Act, which includes the Environmental Justice for All Act, along with provisions to codify the Roadless Rule, annual funding for firefighter salaries, and funding for forest and water management projects.