The US Forest Service is finalizing the first-ever national policy to steward and conserve our old-growth forests. But this historic proposal doesn’t go far enough. It still allows for numerous exceptions of commercial logging of old-growth forests and does nothing to protect mature forests, the old-growth of the future, from logging.
Together, we can change that.
Visit https://p2a.co/oqbprpz to submit a public comment by September 20 to advocate for the strongest possible protections of our nation’s ancient forests. It only takes two minutes—but the results could be everlasting.
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