Don't Let the U.S. Forest Service Sacrifice Our Environment!
You might think that an agency called the "United States Forest Service" would be all about protecting forests from every attack. But you would be wrong. Since the 1980s, the Forest Service has tried every trick in the book to allow logging, livestock grazing, and motorized vehicles on the very acres that our taxes pay to protect.
Some of the service's proposed uses of our forests have been struck down as illegal. In particular, the forest service seems eager to undermine a 1982 rule that guarantees the safety of fish and wildlife in national forests.
This means that our national forests were safer in the Reagan era than they are now! The Center for Biological Diversity notes that this is the forest service's fourth attempt to reverse protections for America's 193 million acres of public forest.
Tell the forest service to live up to its name and serve and protect our forests.
We the undersigned demand that you honor both the letter and the spirit of the 1982 rule that mandates strong protections for fish and wildlife on the 193 million acres of our national forests.
These forests are every bit as much our heritage as the liberty bell, the start and strips, and the bald eagle. Your commission should be to protect and preserve every acre, every tree, and every bird's nest. Instead, you seem eager to release loggers and off-road vehicles onto our last remaining old forests. Please rethink your management strategies and figure out how to serve the forest as your agency's name suggests you should do.
