Sierra Club
Redwood Chapter Newsletter
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Bush Unraveling Sierra Forests Protection Comment Deadline Barbara Boyle, Sierra Club field staff | |
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In 2001, a historic plan to preserve old growth forests and wildlife in the Sierra was signed by the Forest Service. This plan, the Sierra Nevada Framework, changed the direction of the Forest Service from overlogging and roadbuilding toward more balance in the forests. It also set in place guidelines to remove brush and small trees near communities to decrease the risk of catastrophic forest fires while protecting ancient forests. But now the Forest Service, under a new administration, wants to weaken protections and let timber companies cut large old growth trees deep in the forest. This plan would go back to the old days of overlogging, threaten the future for many species of wildlife and double logging in our Sierra Nevada national forests. |
Don't let the Forest Service do an about-face! Write a letter to the Forest Service and ask the agency to implement the Sierra Nevada Framework as agreed to in 2001. Send comments by September 12.
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