Forests & Climate

Forests store more carbon per acre than any other terrestrial ecosystem on the planet; they need to be the nation’s first line of climate change defense.

Forest Carbon Reserve

The creation of a Forest Carbon Reserve would be an essential part of any future Green New Deal. It would result in a substantial reduction in, and avoidance of, carbon emissions from forest degradation and fossil fuel production, would be integral to a broader green jobs program.

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Protect the Stewards of Our Public Lands and National Parks

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Industrial forestry is a set of techniques aimed at producing as much commercially valuable timber per acre as quickly as possible.

The Climate Impacts of Industrial Forest

Most of North America’s largest timber companies are wedded to a model of intensive, industrial forestry that is far from climate friendly. We need to reward long-rotation, lower-impact logging if we are serious about tackling climate change.

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Has Big Timber Finally Brought USGBC To Heel?

Don’t Buy the “New” SFI

Sustainable Forestry Initiative Certification

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“There Will Be Impacts”: Brazil's COP30 Preparations Are Already Harming Critical Ecosystems

This Ecologist Is Rewriting the Story of California Landscapes

Tree DNA: For Conservation, For Solving Crime

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January 11, 2021

Community and clean water advocates sued to reverse a U.S. Forest Service decision rushed through behind undue political pressure from the lame duck Trump administration

November 18, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Trump administration today published a final rule containing rollbacks undercutting the role of science, transparency, and broad public input for decisions involving projects proposed on national forest land. The new rule…

October 28, 2020

The US Forest Service issued notice for a Final Record of Decision today eliminating the Roadless Rule in the Tongass National Forest. The decision opens vast swaths of irreplaceable old-growth temperate rainforest to clearcut logging, jeopardizing…

October 13, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Donald Trump later today is expected to sign an Executive Order creating an interagency council to coordinate the U.S.’s participation in the international One Trillion Trees Initiative. The Order follows repeated climate denial…

September 30, 2020

OAKLAND-- Two new major fires in California have led to additional deaths, property loss and evacuation orders. The fast growing fires are the latest in what was already a record fire season for the state.