Headwaters Forest Reserve, Humboldt County, California
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We fought successfully for it once and we won't abandon it now.
The groundbreaking Public Lands Rule first rolled out in 2024 under heavy fire from industry and right-wing ideologues. Now it's being threatened with recission by the Trump Administration.
Submit your public comment today to save the Public Lands Rule!
The federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is the United States' largest land-management agency, with jurisdiction over some 245 million acres of taxpayer-owned land including 15 million acres in California—much of it woodland and forest.
Forests Forever was birthed in the 1990s fight to save the then-largest unprotected virgin redwood forest remaining in the world, Headwaters Forest. Today it's a 7500-acre BLM Forest Reserve.
California's King Range National Conservation Area and the Cache Creek Wilderness are just two of the better-known areas where a visitor can enjoy tall conifer forests or sun-splashed oak woodlands undisturbed by humans.
Scroll to the RESOURCES heading at the bottom of this alert for a glimpse of what these lands look like and what's at stake.
The Public Lands Rule formally established a common-sense notion: Conservation is now on a co-equal footing with the uses that have dominated BLM land-use for decades: logging, grazing, and oil and gas development.
Deadline for public comments is Nov. 10. But to make sure we give the BLM no excuse to exclude your comments because they were "received late" we'll be submitting our petition sigatures by 9 p.m. Pacific on Nov. 9, so please be sure to take action before then.
Our public lands and the bounty of sparkling waters and rich soils that they support need your help!
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Paul Hughes
Executive Director
Forests Forever
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RESOURCES →
- This slightly glitchy interactive map still gives you the location and classifications of the BLM's publicly owned holdings.
- Here are BLM photo collections depicting some of its California public lands, including Headwaters Forest Reserve.
- Visit the BLM's web pages on its California holdings, including California Forests and Woodlands.
- California's Resources Secretary, Wade Crowfoot, wrote a strong letter of support for the Public Lands Rule and its benefits.
- Here is Forests Forever's latest alert in defense of the Public Lands Rule, sent on 5/11/24.