White Mountain Clearcut Petition

Sierra Club Maine supports the efforts of the citizen group Western Maine Against Deforestation to stop an ill-conceived U.S. Forest Service plan that allows clear cut logging in certified buffer zones protecting the Caribou-Speckle Mountain Wilderness region in western Maine. 

The “Albany South” plan would remove nine million board feet of timber in an area that directly abuts an ongoing logging operation of 11 million board feet. Total impacted acreage; over half of Maine’s White Mountain National Forest. 

The clear-cutting operation would pollute Kezar, Keewaydin and Virginia Lakes due to insufficient streamside buffers, a critical driver for degrading lake quality, and would require thousands of logging truck trips on steep winding forest roads.

Please tell the US Forest Service that our public forests should be protected, and demand that they conduct a full Environmental Impact Statement for their harmful logging plan. 

The more people sign, the louder our voice.

Thanks for all that you do to protect Maine’s forests.

P.S.: For more information on this clear-cutting plan and to get involved, see www.whitemountainforest.org.