Forests Forever

We helped put CalFIRE on notice that a broad segment of the public wants that agency to prepare a revised management plan reflecting meaningful co-management of Jackson Demonstration State Forest with the tribes for which the area is culturally central, to accompany this revised plan with an Environmental Impact Report, and to halt all logging at Jackson until these objectives are attained. We generated communications to federal officials in support of strengthened federal rules to protect mature and old-growth forests; we believe this helped to result in stronger draft rules than would otherwise have been promulgated. We helped to sideline federal H.R. 8168, which would have damaged environmental laws in the name of saving giant sequoias. The bill did not pass.