Help Protect Rim Fire Habitat- Please Send your Email Today!

Habitat in the Rim Fire is under threat and we need your help today! A state agency, the Sierra Nevada Conservancy, is planning to use Federal taxpayer dollars, which were supposed to help communities recover from natural disasters, to log rich habitat created by the Rim Fire in remote areas of the Stanislaus National Forest. In addition to destroying this habitat – the logging would also destroy regenerating forests and would exacerbate climate change by immediately turning the burned trees into carbon emissions through burning in a biomass facility. What we call #Clearcuts4Kilowatts.

You can help us save this resilient forests which is rich with native wildlife by sending a letter to the Sierra Nevada Conservancy Board and asking them to change course and leave these rejuvenating forests standing.

Please fill out the form below – add any personal message you may have and press send! Just two minutes of your time could make a real difference for our forests, wildlife and the planet.

Thank you for taking a moment to #Stand4Forests

Help Save Rim Fire Habitat - Send Your Email Today!

Dear Sierra Nevada Conservancy Board Members;

The nearly 4,000 acres of mature forests in the Rim Fire that burned at high intensity and which you are planning to clearcut using funds from a Trump Administration grant, are, and have been, home to imperiled wildlife species such as the California Spotted Owl, Black-backed Woodpecker, and Northern Goshawks for the past 4 years.

These areas of rich snag forest habitat have also served as a nursery for dozens of other species of birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles who have benefitted from the homes offered by dead trees, downed logs, and the abundant food which accompanies native shrubs, grasses and wildflower growth.

In addition, the forests in these areas that you propose to clearcut are already growing back.  In some areas regenerating trees which are adapted to the local conditions are over six feet tall, and new seedlings are coming in every year.  Your proposed logging would kill most of this recovering forest.

Destroying this natural community which is not only rebounding from the Rim Fire, but is thriving, is NOT restoration, it is simply habitat destruction.

We implore you to change course.  Please use the recovery grant funds to replant areas that were previously logged and are in need of restoration and let the resilient snag forests in the Rim Fire remain intact and unlogged.

Thank you,

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