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The timber industry learned long ago that the American public leans in favor of conservation and resource protection. So the best way to sell its logging and other forest-extractive activities, the industry figures, is to make them sound green.
Enter the "Fix Our Forests Act."
This measure exploits the public's justifiable fear of wildfire danger by palming off the idea that more logging is the best solution. A lot more logging.
Contact your U.S. senators today and urge them to oppose the so-called Fix Our Forests Act (FOFA)!
In the crosshairs: all 154 national forests and forested Bureau of Land Management and tribal lands.
FOFA would fast-track deforestation and weaken or cast aside laws currently ensuring that bona fide science enters the decisionmaking process. It also would hamstring provisions for citizen review and legal challenge of logging projects.
Missing from the bill: actual solutions to property destruction and loss of human life from wildfire—namely, home hardening, defensible space work, and community preparedness planning.
FOFA calls for logging in the name of fuels reduction, including taking the older, larger (and, of course, more commercially valuable) trees that tend to resist fire.
The bill would lay waste to ecological values provided by intact forests, including water cleansing and storage, habitat for listed species, and much more.
Scroll to the bottom of this alert to RESOURCES for more information on this issue.
In recent weeks this bill has passed the U.S. House of Representatives. Its next stop is a Senate floor vote. Please take action right away to stop the disingenuously named Fix Our Forests Act!
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Paul Hughes
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RESOURCES →
- Forests Forever was among dozens of organizations that signed this recent letter to the Senate Agriculture Committee opposing the Fix Our Forests Act.
- Here is a sampling of articles from The New Republic and Grist that sets forth the many problems with this bill.
- Produced during the first Trump administration, this excellent podcast sets forth the reasons why industrial thinning as a wildfire-protection strategy is a bad idea. The home-hardening discussion gets going at 13:02, but the entire interview is essential information for the well-informed citizen activist.