[Green] Online vote, please: Climate Forests Campaign - Help Us Save Old Mature Forests

[Dawn Hewitt]

Hi everyone,

This arrived in the church-lady’s email today, so she forwarded it to me. All in favor of the GSC signing onto this campaign to protect mature and old-growth trees and forests on federal land, please say “Aye.”

Feel free to send a letter individually to the BLM by June 20, and/or to the USFS by July 20. Reply to me with your vote by 9 p.m. Sunday, June 18. The FUUSM office will be closed on June 19 off, so I can get some stuff done that day. 

—dawn


> From: Melinda Hughes <mailto:mhughes at environmentamerica.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 7:06 PM
> To: Melinda Hughes <mailto:mhughes at environmentamerica.org>
> Subject: Climate Forests Campaign - Help Us Save Old Mature Forests
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> Hello! You may or may not have heard about our Climate Forests Campaign <https://publicinterestnetwork-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2TKoE1ihJb3HD6DajUl3y2iRTMg8GDwEBCBzXxQWB60Oc8te4hwHkhj4R00q3hUfwZimTY8hKS9wTE1yAKizrst8BDv-SdzJyxXv8fVsm4uYyjMbq1-HClqSf8RMkZs4uQ5SsD4XwbG8d_y0ogtihq2rXMh1YYj_HJQu2s4HT-CLSn3Yb-ugcZNHdk0FTXpzTog> and the push for 500,000 public comments to convince the Biden administration to permanently protect mature and old-growth forests (50+ million acres) on federal lands. Both the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the US Forest Service announced that they are initiating rule-making processes and both have kicked off public comment periods to get public input on what they should do to protect our forests. The comment period for BLM ends June 20th, and the comment period for the Forest was just extended until July 20th.  We do have a toolkit <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RLC1Tz4-CsTSC8tPqTZR8ea70VLG0vDqH6fjTlsAKuE/edit> with sample language with those that can write longer comments, and it also contains talking points, social media graphics, etc.
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> Is your organization participating, and if yes, please answer the following by emailing me back with answers or please fill out this form <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wydUKgTu7l1oP8bL67AlwFYH75OPxKUAz7aiXM45pxY/edit?usp=sharing> so that we can track our efforts.
> ·  Are you submitting an organizational comment to the Forest Service? to BLM?
> ·  Have you sent a request out to your constituents or partner groups, and if yes, about how many comments (individual or other organizational comments) do you estimate that will generate? Note that we'd love to see broad outreach to other sectors such as faith-based communities or jurisdictions, really anyone that cares about trees. 
> ·  Beyond asking for comments, how about have tried getting petition comments and if yes, how many? 
> There are also some super easy things your organization could do as well, which is great for all organizations regardless of capacity. 
> Sign (and share) the organizational sign-on letter which can be found here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd-ZHrXbRAr1RO09OML0IqAAy0Wopj0mODuFAml9p6ixRTV3Q/viewform> that calls for protections for mature and old-growth trees and forests. The comment is addressed to both the BLM and Forest Service. We will deliver it to the BLM on June 20 and the Forest Service on July 20. The letter will close on July 19 (groups that sign on after the morning of 6/20 will not be included in the submission to BLM). This comment letter is led by Environment America, NRDC, Earthjustice, and Standing Trees.
> We also have our own petition where folks can click just one link <https://www.climate-forests.org/take-action> to send a note to both the BLM and Forest Service. If nothing else, we'd love it if you sent our petition link <https://www.climate-forests.org/take-action> to your constituents as every comment helps. 
> This is a once-a-generation for us to really make a difference for forest protections at the federal level. Please do as many actions as your organizational capacity allows. 
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> Please reply to me individually at  mhughes at environmentamerica.org <mailto:mhughes at environmentamerica.org>. Also, if you're not the person to talk to about this, please feel free to pass me along to whoever is. I look forward to hearing from you and working with you to save our forests. 
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> Sincerely,
> Melinda
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> Melinda Hughes
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