Hello

With the BLM comment period extended, there is still time to sign on to this public comment calling for protections of 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 July 5 and the Forest Service on July 20. The letter will close on July 19 (obviously groups that sign on after the morning of 7/5 will not be included in the submission to BLM). This comment letter is led by Environment America, NRDC, Earthjustice and Standing Trees.

Below are the groups currently signed on:
350 Eugene
350 Rutland County
350 Salem OR
350 Seattle
350 Wisconsin
Alaska Rainforest Defenders
Alpine Lakes Protection Society
Black Hills Sierra Group of the Sierra Club
Cascadia Climate Action Now
CCoHOPE Indivisible
Center For Biological Diversity
Central Oregon LandWatch
Chattooga Conservancy
Citizens Climate Lobby Charlottesville
Climate Reality Greater Maryland
Climate Writers
Community  Hiking Club
Creation Justice Ministries
Earth Ethics, Inc.
Earthjustice
EcoFlight
Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon, Oregon Interfaith Power & Light
Elders Climate Action Maryland
Endangered Species Coalition
Environment America
Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC)
Fact Ohio
Forest Keeper
ForestWeb
Friends of Big Ivy
Friends of Blackwater, Inc.
Friends of the Bitterroot
Friends of the Clearwater
Give A Shift
Green America
Green Cove Defense Committee
Green Sanctuary Committee, First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta, Ohio
GreenSnohomish
High Country Conservation Advocates
I Heart Pisgah
Indivisible Austin
Indivisible Huron Valley
Interfaith EarthKeepers
Interfaith Power & Light
Kentucky Heartwood
Kitsap Environmental Coalition
Klamath Forest Alliance
League of Conservation Voters
Leelanau Indivisible
Los Padres ForestWatch
Metro Climate Action Team
Natural Resources Council of Maine
Natural Resources Law
New Mexico Wild
Old-Growth Forest Network
Oregon Wild
Owen-Putnam Friends of the Forest
Presbyterians for Earth Care Advocacy Committee
Rachel Carson Council
RESTORE: The North Woods
Riding Tide Wenatchee
Rio Grande Valley Broadband of the Great Old Broads for Wilderness
Rocky Mountain Wild
San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council
Sierra Club
Sierra Club Hoosier Chapter
Sierra Club Poudre Canyon Group
Standing Trees
Statewide Indivisible Michigan
The Forest Advocate
The Mountain Pact
Thurston Climate Action Team
Umpqua Natural Leadership Science Hub
Umpqua Watersheds
Western Slope Conservation Center
Western Watersheds Project
Whatcom Million Trees Project
WildEarth Guardians
Wilderness Workshop
Willamette Valley Broadband of the Great Old Broads for Wilderness
Williams Community Forest Project
Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN)

On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 8:20 AM Len Montgomery <lmontgomery@environmentamerica.org> wrote:
All

I invite your organization to sign on to this public comment calling for protections of 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 (obviously 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.

Please fill out this form to add your group to the comment. We are not accepting edits except for fixing obvious typos.

Len

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Ellen "Len" Montgomery
Environment America
Public Lands Campaign Director
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