Attention Gov. Jerry Brown

URGENT MEASURES MUST BE TAKEN TO SAVE CALIFORNIA'S FORESTS!

Forests Forever advances
sweeping reform package:

The California Statewide Sustainable Forests and Watersheds Campaign

ACTION ALERT

Tell the state Air Resources Board that allowing forest clearcutting to serve as offsets for polluting industries under the Global Warming Solutions Act A.B. 32 is NOT ACCEPTABLE!

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Let Nat'l Park Service manage Giant Sequoia Nat'l Monument

Say No to Forest Service's
'Alternative B'

At long last the U.S. Forest Service has put forth its revised options for managing Giant Sequoia National Monument.

The problem is the Forest Service still doesn't get it. Once again the agency is threatening to log extensively within the monument, one of California's most treasured landscapes.

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Help ban clearcutting in California!

Clearcutting is highly destructive of the natural environment. Its effects include:

• Destroying wildlife habitat and corridors and endangering native plants and animals;

• Increasing soil erosion and sedimentation in rivers and streams, which increases the need for
costly water treatment, diminishes the capacity of the state’s water storage facilities and harms wildlife;

• Boosting the risk of intense wildfires by converting cool, moist forests into sun-baked slash
piles and later to fire-prone tree plantations;

• Degrading the state’s natural beauty, which in turn affects tourism, recreation, retirement and property values; and

• Contributing to global warming by removing a major natural storage reservoir (standing vegetation) for carbon dioxide, and by exposing forest soils to accelerated weathering.

Ending the practice of clearcutting in California’s forests is necessary and urgent. Our forests are being destroyed at an ever-increasing pace. You can help us fight clearcutting by helping to elevate this issue in the priorities of California’s elected officials.

Please write to the three top officials in the state– Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado, and Attorney General Jerry Brown. Encourage them to end clearcutting in California.

Tell them about the destruction of California’s forest legacy by a few greedy timber companies that contribute only a small percentage of revenue and jobs to the state. Let them know that this issue is not going to go away until clearcutting in California has been stopped!