bike seeds: 🌲 America's national forests are under attack

Will you help defend our forests before it's too late?

Momoko, will you make an urgent gift today to help defend America's forests from devastating attacks? We need to raise $15,000 by July 31 to power our work protecting the public lands we all share. Your gift today will help us meet this critical goal.

As our nation celebrates its 250th anniversary, we should be honoring the lands and waters that make our country so diverse and beautiful—not dismantling the protections that keep them wild. Our forests are part of our shared inheritance. They provide clean water, sustain wildlife, support communities and give us all the freedom to hike, camp, fish and enjoy nature.

But right now, that inheritance is under attack. The administration and its allies are advancing a sweeping agenda to weaken protections for our national forests while dismantling the U.S. Forest Service itself. At the same time, they're pushing to expand logging and development—threatening forests, wildlife, clean water and our freedom to explore the outdoors.

The best thing you can do right now is make a generous gift to help us stop these attacks and keep our forests and other public lands and waters protected for generations to come.

Here are just a few of the current threats we're fighting against:

The administration has sought to undermine the agencies that manage our public lands to clear the way for industrial development and privatization. At the U.S. Forest Service, thousands of workers, including wildfire staff, have been fired or pushed into resignation. Meanwhile, they've announced plans to close all regional offices, shutter research stations and move its headquarters from D.C. to Utah. These actions could increase wildfire risk, harm wildlife habitat and reduce access to the forests we all share.
According to The New York Times, a forthcoming memo from USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins would direct the U.S. Forest Service to open more than 5 million acres of recommended wilderness to timber harvest and motor vehicle access, threatening clean drinking water, wildlife corridors and our freedom to roam, hike, camp and explore.
The administration is moving to repeal the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. If this rule is repealed, it would strip protections from more than 45 million acres of national forests, including iconic old-growth forests like the Tongass National Forest in Alaska.

Right now, we hope you'll join us in saying: Enough is enough.

MAKE YOUR GIFT

Our forests belong to all of us—not the highest bidder.

That's why The Wilderness Society is fighting back in the courts, in Congress and in communities across the country. We're standing up for the Forest Service and all the public servants who care for our public lands. We're defending our nation's bedrock conservation protections. We're advancing groundbreaking science that protects wild places. And we're mobilizing people across the country to send one unmistakable message: Our public lands are not for sale.

But we can't do it without you, Momoko.

Please, make your gift before midnight on Friday, July 31 to help reach our $15,000 goal. Together we will fiercely defend our forests and ensure they can be handed down to future generations—not over to corporate polluters.

Thanks for standing with us.

The Wilderness Society