Take action to protect threatened mature and old-growth forests on BLM lands
The Bureau of Land Management in Oregon continues to plan destructive clearcuts and old-growth logging sales. Let their leadership know that we need stronger protections for mature and old-growth forests—before these reckless projects go any further.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is proposing massive logging projects that threaten thousands of acres of mature and old-growth trees.
It’s time for the agency to take action on some meaningful steps toward mature and old-growth forest protections. One of the most straightforward ways to do this is through implementation guidance for their Public Lands Rule. This guidance could establish increased transparency and accountability in a time when it is sorely needed.
The BLM is currently moving as fast as it can to log thousands of acres of mature and old-growth forests, including the Blue and Gold Project, which contains some of the last fragments of unlogged, carbon-storing forests in the area. This project and others like it hold some of our best remaining older forests in Oregon. These low-elevation forests allow for connectivity and dispersal corridors for threatened species between higher-elevation lands in the Cascades and Coast Ranges.
Please join us in telling the BLM leadership it’s time to take action to protect our mature and old-growth forests.
Photo: The Blue and Gold BLM logging project – photo by Cascadia Wildlands
