Protect Old Forests To Store Carbon

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Take Action to Protect Forests and Store Carbon!

Our mature and old growth are some of our most powerful climate solutions. But these forests are still being logged when they should be set aside for carbon storage, wildlife habitat, and clean water.

We need the Biden administration to understand that forest defense is climate defense!

When we protect our older forests from logging, we both reduce greenhouse gas emissions and ensure these forests continue to store vast amounts of carbon —a win-win climate change solution! Our intact forests also offer critical habitat for fish and wildlife, including the iconic Pacific Northwest Salmon. Healthy forests also provide drinking water and protect communities from flooding and landslides.

Please join us in calling on Gina McCarthy, the White House Climate Coordinator, and John Kerry, the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, to incorporate permanent protections for mature and old growth temperate rainforests as part of our nation’s strategy to address climate change.

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Protect Forests and Fight Climate Change!

Research has shown that the rate that trees take up carbon from the atmosphere is most powerful when trees pass 80 years of age. The Biden administration must take immediate executive action to establish permanent protections for mature and old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest and in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska. Forests are important for carbon storage, habitat, drinking water quality, and recreation.

Please contact the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Biden's climate team to encourage them to protect forests!

Biden's climate team (Gina McCarthy & John Kerry)

Subject: Conserve Mature Forests as a U.S. Climate Strategy

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Dear Gina McCarthy and John Kerry, Please ensure permanent protections for mature and old-growth forests on federal lands are a central component of our nation’s strategy to address the increasingly hotter and drier climate and it's threats to our drinking water & wildlife. Our mature forests are still being logged at an alarming rate, directly undermining your administration’s efforts to address climate change and protect 30 percent of lands and waters by 2030. The temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska store even more carbon per acre than tropical rainforests. Studies have shown that preserving these landscapes from logging would store the equivalent of approximately 8 years of regional fossil fuel emissions, and larger, older trees in every forest hold the majority of the carbon on the landscape. Further, establishing permanent protections for these forests on federal lands will help ensure that fish and wildlife are able to survive in a rapidly changing world. These forests are also vital to the economic, spiritual, and cultural health of the US. Establishing permanent protections for the mature and old-growth forests on federal lands is one of the simplest and most cost-effective near-term climate solutions the United States can employ. Thank you for your support.

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