Stop the Latest Anti-Public Lands Bill in Congress

Earlier this month, the Senate Agriculture Committee passed the “Fix Our Forests Act” with six Democrats joining Republicans in support of the bill. This bill functionally takes the public out of public lands by severely limiting our ability to influence how these lands are managed. Among other issues, the legislation authorizes 15 square-mile-sized logging projects with little to no public input and environmental analysis, making this one of the scariest plans to face public lands in a generation.

Next, this bill will head to the full Senate for a vote. Your senators need to hear from you — our communities, wildlife, and public lands deserve real solutions to addressing the threat of wildfires, not handouts to corporate logging interests.

This misleading bill fails to provide dedicated funding for the type of wildfire strategies that save lives and livelihoods — home hardening, defensible space, and emergency planning. It guts the Endangered Species Act consultation and removes essential protections for vulnerable fish and wildlife. It undermines the National Environmental Policy Act, making it easier for the Trump administration to advance destructive logging projects without public input. And it shortens the judicial review window on logging projects, placing an unfair burden on frontline communities and Tribes who deserve equal say in how their public lands are managed.

Supporters of the bill are manipulating the public’s very valid fear of wildfire to remove protections for public lands at a time when we need them most. The Trump administration is attempting to gut environmental laws, ramp up logging, and rescind the Roadless Rule. Anyone paying attention should know now is not the time to cave to corporate interests attempting to maximize profits at the expense of public lands. 

Tell your Senator to vote “NO.”