Oppose the Senate “Fix Our Forests” Act
Tell your Senators to oppose the dangerous Fix Our Forests Act, a trojan horse for 15 square mile logging projects on our public lands!
There is no sugarcoating it — our public forests are facing threats from every side these days. We need you to use your voice to defend them more than ever before.
As you know, the so-called Fix Our Forests Bill passed the House of Representatives earlier this year. That proposed legislation would do lasting damage to our forests by allowing massive logging projects (roughly 15 square miles) to move forward without substantive public process or scientific analysis.
That bill is now being considered in the Senate, and while it has gotten marginally better, it still contains huge loopholes and anti-environment provisions that will degrade our forests. What’s more, this bill fails to invest in real solutions to protect communities from fire, increases logging and grazing under guise of reducing fire risk, eliminates protections for endangered species, and bypasses public review and science in decision-making. It’s a logging bill trying to disguise itself as a wildfire strategy, and we need our elected leaders to set the bar higher. Our forests and communities deserve better.
And that’s not the end of the bad news for our forests. While public lands sell-offs were stripped from the Big Ugly budget bill, it is still the worst environmental bill to pass in the history of our country. Among other things, it mandates an increase of 270 million board feet harvested from federal forests.
At the same time the Trump administration announced its intent to rescind the Roadless Rule, which has stood for 20 years as an invaluable protection for wilderness-quality wildlands for nearly 60 million acres across the country.
And let’s not forget Trump’s logging Executive Order, which directed federal agencies to weaken environmental laws in order to fast-track his logging agenda.
Please tell your Senators to oppose the Fix Our Forests Act. This bill would give the Trump administration even more authority to loot our public lands and forests.
Thank you for all you do to protect our public lands,
