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Since President Biden took office, the volume logg

Since President Biden took office, the volume logged on our public lands has increased dramatically despite his pledge to end deforestation and forest degradation by 2030 under the Glasgow Leaders Declaration on Forests and Land Use. Volume logged is expressed in thousand board feet (MBF), and since 2021, the Forest Service total has risen from 2,377,642 MBF to 2,939,816 MBF through the end of fiscal year 2023 according to the agency's quarterly cut and sold reports [1]. This is a 24% increase. The results from FY 2024 continue this unsettling trend. Logging volume has jumped another 6% over the last year. The climate consequences are severe. According to the latest scientific estimates, every thousand board feet (MBF) of timber logged in the US or internationally generates anywhere from 9.69 to 16.74 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent over the wood products life cycle [2]. National forest logging is on the higher end of this range because most of what is cut is mature, carbon dense timber. At an emissions factor of 15 tCO2-e/mbf, the emissions impact of a nearly one billion board foot (942,213 MBF) increase in annual volume cut on national forests compared with FY 2021 is over 8.4 million metric tons per year. That's enough to take nearly a quarter million (241,000) electric vehicles off the road each year and replace them with 193,000 gas guzzling SUVs [3]. A gaping hole in US climate policy continues to be Big Timber and the devastating climate consequences of industrial logging on both our public and private forestlands.

CSE and other members of the Forest Carbon Coalition are hard at work trying to turn things around. Last September, we published an updated version of Repairing America's Tattered Forests: Maximizing natural carbon removal while revitalizing or forgotten rural areas. This policy roadmap calls for ending the subsidized logging of public forestlands, including national forests, and contains an extensive list of policy interventions available to Congress and state legislatures for making a decisive turn towards full implementation of the Glasgow Leaders pact.

Since President Biden took office, the volume logg

Since President Biden took office, the volume logged on our public lands has increased dramatically despite his pledge to end deforestation and forest degradation by 2030 under the Glasgow Leaders Declaration on Forests and Land Use. Volume logged is expressed in thousand board feet (MBF), and since 2021, the Forest Service total has risen from 2,377,642 MBF to 2,939,816 MBF through the end of fiscal year 2023 according to the agency's quarterly cut and sold reports [1]. This is a 24% increase. The results from FY 2024 continue this unsettling trend. Logging volume has jumped another 6% over the last year. The climate consequences are severe. Check out the forest 🌳 carbon coalition website for the full blog post that dives deeper into the data with references…

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Numbers can put things in perspective- this is fro

Numbers can put things in perspective- this is from the recent updated report on the state of American’s tattered forests. See link in bio for full report! #forest #facts

The Forest 🌳 Carbon Coalition has released an u

The Forest 🌳 Carbon Coalition has released an updated 2023 - Repairing America’s Tattered Forests - Maximizing natural carbon removal while revitalizing our forgotten rural areas. Link in bio for full report.

SAVE THE DATE! REGISTER EARLY! The FCC presents We

SAVE THE DATE! REGISTER EARLY! The FCC presents Webinar 2 of a series.

What are Industrial Forest Practices Costing Us?
The Climate and Societal Costs of Logging
December 14, 2022
11:30 am PST

What are the costs? Come find out! Join three nationally renowned natural resource economists to learn more about the climate impacts of industrial forest practices, alternatives available to reduce those impacts, economic policy interventions to help scale up these alternatives, benefit-cost issues, externalities, and socio-economic effects.

Registration link: http://ow.ly/CJeU50LLolz (clickable link may be found in Stories and Highlights)

If you missed Webinar 1, Setting the Stage: Distinguishing Science from Falsehoods, the recording is available on the FCC YouTube Channel http://ow.ly/JFWF50LLoH9 (clickable link in Highlights)

#environmentaljustice #Tree #stopthechop #climatesolutions #industrialforestpractices #climateimpacts #socialjustice #policyinterventions #climatechange #standingtrees

MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! For over 30 years the Klamath F

MEMBER SPOTLIGHT!

For over 30 years the Klamath Forest Alliance (KFA) has worked to protect the forests, watersheds, and wildlife of the Klamath-Siskiyou Mountains in Northern California and southwestern Oregon. They combine passionate advocacy, deep knowledge of the land, on-the-ground public land monitoring, community organizing, grassroots environmental activism and litigation to protect biodiversity and habitat connectivity from the Yolla Bolly Mountains to the Siskiyou Crest.

Link to full article (click news and blogs on FCC website) in bio and highlights.

To become a member of the Forest Carbon Coalition link in bio.

#klamath #klamathsiskiyou #siskiyoucrest #wildlife #climatesolutions #watershedprotection #mountains #biodiversity #carbonstorage #carboncapture

Join us on Wednesday, September 21, 2022 at 11:30

Join us on Wednesday, September 21, 2022 at 11:30 am pst/2:30 pm est for presentations on carbon, wildfire, and biodiversity with Q&A to follow.

Panelist Dr. Bev Law will present science backed information on carbon capture and storage, the role of forests, and the real steps needed to reduce carbon emissions by 40% by 2030.

Panelist Dr. Chad Hanson will present the science on the importance of wildfire and how best to protect communities.

Panelist Dr. Monica Bond will present an overview of post-fire habitat and biodiversity based on 30+ years of research.

Copy and paste link to register today:
http://ow.ly/ZMOj50KuIea

#climatecrisis #stopthechop #climatesolutions #biodiversity #wildfire #science #sciencebacked #homehardening #defensiblespace

SAVE THE DATE! September 21, 2022 11:30 AM PST / 2

SAVE THE DATE! September 21, 2022 11:30 AM PST / 2:30 PM EST

SETTING THE STAGE: Distinguishing Science from Falsehoods
The truth about Carbon, Wildfire, and Biodiversity

Join panelists Drs. Bev Law, Chad Hanson, and Monica Bond for presentations on carbon capture and storage, the role of forests, and the real steps needed to reduce carbon emissions by 40% by 2030; the importance of wildfire and how best to protect communities; and an overview of post-fire habitat and biodiversity.

Registration Required
http://ow.ly/mSG850KpN6x

Forest Carbon Coalition presents WEBINAR: SETTING

Forest Carbon Coalition presents

WEBINAR:
SETTING THE STAGE: Distinguishing Science from Falsehoods
The truth about Carbon, Wildfire, and Biodiversity

Join panelists Drs. Bev Law, Chad Hanson, and Monica Bond for presentations on carbon capture and storage, the role of forests, and the real steps needed to reduce carbon emissions by 40% by 2030; the importance of wildfire and how best to protect communities; and an overview of post-fire habitat and biodiversity. Q&A to follow.

Copy and Paste to register
http://ow.ly/Ha4X50KpMNF

Join us this Wednesday for Dr. Dominick DellaSala,

Join us this Wednesday for Dr. Dominick DellaSala, Chief Scientist at Wild Heritage, to discuss his groundbreaking research creating the first Coast to Coast Mature/Old Growth Assessment for the USA! #ProtectOldGrowth

August 3rd at 11am PST
Register Now: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_So8OJLjHQeuyqq5wzQC_WQ

The so-called "Save Our Sequoias Act" (HR 8168) is

The so-called "Save Our Sequoias Act" (HR 8168) is really just a logging bill in disguise.

It would:
1) Essentially eliminate environmental laws to allow commercial logging of mature and old-growth trees, including sequoias

2) Allow for post-fire clearcut logging, on both national forests and national parks in giant sequoia grove areas within Yosemite National Park, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, and national forests

Based on extensive field surveys by @johnmuirproject and colleagues, the government has grossly overstated the recent mortality of mature giant sequoias, and natural post-fire sequoia reproduction is already abundant, especially in the moderate and high-intensity fire patches. Over 80 Environmental Groups strongly oppose this misguided sequoia logging bill.

#SaveOurSequoias #Stand4Forests #ForestDefenseIsClimateDefense #KeepItInTheForest

Today is Endangered Species Day! This yearly celeb

Today is Endangered Species Day! This yearly celebration of conservation success is a time to look back at the progress we have achieved in preventing extinction while working together to help still-struggling species. Learn more at http://ow.ly/vj2050JbGi7

Thanks to the Endangered Species Act and the hard work of conservationists and activists, the bald eagle, green sea turtle, American alligator, peregrine falcon, and many other species were kept from disappearing into extinction. Celebrate conservation successes this Endangered Species Day while working to keep up the momentum to stop extinction.

#endangeredspeciesday #stopextinction

Nearly 80% of US forestlands are moderately or sev

Nearly 80% of US forestlands are moderately or severely degraded from decades of mismanagement and harmful activities including logging, grazing, mining, roads, invasive species, off road vehicle use, suburban sprawl and unwarranted fire suppression. In addition, logging of the last remnants of ecologically intact primary and natural forests continues, largely as a result of subsidized logging on public forestlands.

The loss and degradation of US forestlands comes with a high climate price tag. Industrial logging activities are major sources of greenhouse gas emissions despite being excluded from national and state level GHG inventories. In addition, lands heavily impacted by clearcuts, dense logging road networks and timber plantations are far more vulnerable to wildfires, water shortages, floods, storm damage and other stressors already on the rise due to climate change. But EO 140008 offers hope for turning the tide.

The EO requires the USDA and USDI to develop and implement a climate-forestry plan that accomplishes several overlapping goals including reducing climate pollution, increasing landscape resilience to climate change, protecting public health, conserving our lands, waters and biodiversity, delivering environmental justice and creating jobs and economic growth in our most economically distressed rural communities.

Coordinated by the Forest Carbon Coalition, 61 scientific, conservation community and faith organizations have called on the Biden Administration’s National Climate Task Force to reject the false solutions and narratives offered by Big Timber and instead embrace a climate-forestry plan based on science, sustainable economics and environmental justice. This call to action was accompanied by a detailed policy roadmap containing five high-level strategic goals and dozens of policy interventions to achieve them. Link to roadmap below.

https://sustainable-economy.org/repairing-americas-tattered-forests-a-roadmap-for-usda-usdi-compliance-with-executive-order-140008/

#climatesolutions #climatecrisis #tatteredforests #environmentaljustice #proforestation #reforestation #climatejustice

Did you know Carbon storage = in terms of a tree

Did you know

Carbon storage = in terms of a tree it is the carbon stored in the mass of the tree – branches, trunk, roots – all the parts of the tree that are created when it photosynthesizes energy and grows

Carbon sequestration = the act of pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and then utilizing it for energy and then storing it as growth

Proforestation = letting existing forests grow (ie, stop logging federal lands)

Reforestation = planting trees where they currently grow

Afforestation = planting trees anywhere and not necessarily in areas that were previously forested

Protecting trees as a carbon storage and sequestration source is a key climate solution and an important component of @POTUS #COP26 pledge to end deforestation and forest degradation by 2030.

#carbonstorage #carbonsequestration #savethetrees #proforestation #ClimateChange #ClimateSolutions #forests4future

158 organizations working to protect forests, are

158 organizations working to protect forests, are calling out The Nature Conservancy's pattern of promoting policies that favor the financial interests of the industrial logging & wood product industry at the expense of solving the climate crisis, protecting nature & environmental justice.

Forests are our best defense from the climate crisis & they need us now more than ever! We must end the constant greenwashing by @nature_org who's promoting policies that favor the timber industry at the expense of the climate, nature & environmental justice.

Check out our blog to read more about what our members are demanding in an open letter to TNC. https://forestcarboncoalition.org/the-nature-conspiracy/

#thenatureconspiracy #ExposeTNC #ClimateChange #ClimateJustice #ClimateSolutions #Forests4Future #EndGreenwashing

The bodies are still being counted. The land is st

The bodies are still being counted. The land is still burning. Yet Big Timber is wasting no time greasing the wheels in Congress for another round of profiteering from the staggering community losses in the West.

In a recent op-ed published on The Hill, the author repeats tired old myths about logging, wildfires and climate change that science has thoroughly debunked but which serve logging corporations well. What the author fails to mention is that timber companies promote salvage logging on federal lands because it gives them an opportunity to buy top quality logs at heavily discounted fire-sale prices. Taxpayers and Forest Service revenues take the loss.

Logging makes fires worse, not better. One of the most fateful management choices Congress and our federal forest agencies made in the past was to allow logging corporations free reign on public lands to take the biggest, oldest, most fire-resistant trees with them and leave behind flammable piles of slash, dense plantations of young trees and networks of logging roads that would stretch from here to the moon and halfway back. With these roads come more human-sparked fires from logging equipment, irresponsible campers, gunfire and fireworks. Ninety percent of wildland fires are human caused and this labyrinth of logging roads provides the conduit.

When fires start, a landscape degraded by clearcuts and dense tree plantations burns hotter and faster, causing fires that would otherwise smolder to race down hillsides incinerating everything in their path. This is what happened in Oregon, where I live, over the past 10 days. Salvage logging adds insult to injury by removing critical biological legacies that jump start forest renewal — big downed logs, standing dead trees, patches of unburned forests. The best thing we can do with the newly burned forests in the West is let them heal on their own rather than letting Big Timber in to profit from fires made worse by their logging practices.
The author also gets climate science backwards. The notion that it is better to store carbon in wood products rather than forests is absurd. Wood products don’t store carbon — they release it. Any storage is temporary.

200 of America’s top climate and forest scientis

200 of America’s top climate and forest scientists from 35 states sent a letter to U.S. congressional leaders imploring them to “oppose legislative proposals that would promote logging and wood consumption." A link to the letter is in our bio. It details the extensive carbon cost of the logging, wood products and woody biomass industries while urging Congress to reject any legislative proposals that increase logging, or increase funding for logging. Currently, attempts are even being made to shoehorn such policies into COVID-19 stimulus packages. Logging is not a #ClimateSolution! ⁠
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#StimulusPackage #Covid19 #StopTheChop #Stand4Forests #ClimateDefense #ForestDefenseIsClimateDefense #KeepCarbonInTheForest #KeepItInTheForest #BiomassBurnsThePlanet #biomass #climatepolicy #environmentalpolicy #trees #forestlife #treehuggers #climatescience #climatechangeisreal #climateresilience #forestsarelife #intheforest #wildernessculture #ecowarriors #plantmoretrees #stopcuttingdowntrees #reforestation #deforestationisreal

You can see Canada from here! Truly, looking over

You can see Canada from here! Truly, looking over the border between the state of Washington and British Columbia brings home the message that our forest ecosystems live, breathe, and are at-risk as one. ⁠
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At the @forestcarboncoalition, we believe in policy that help all of us breathe more easily when it comes to clean air, clean water, and climate-smart initiatives in the forest. We believe in keeping carbon in the trees where it belongs and not in our air (no thanks to the burning of biomass). We believe in smart policy initiatives that encourage both private and public landowners to take carbon into account when they make decisions. And we believe that we can work together to make a difference, even during a time when we can’t gather together in person to feel our connections to each other and to the forests.⁠
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Visit the link in our bio to read more about our draft legislation for establishing a forest carbon tax and reward program, which will benefit our fellow humans in the U.S. while reaching beyond our borders for the good of everyone on this earth.⁠
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#climatepolicy #pnwwonderland #thegreatpnw #trees #climatecrisis #environmentalism #climatechangeisreal #climatechange #greenhousegases #carbonemissions #climateactivist #climatereality #deforestation #environmentalawareness #biomass #forestcarbontax #lostinnature #forestvibes #naturescene #livenature #forest ⁠

These gorgeous Oregon grape clusters grow in the u

These gorgeous Oregon grape clusters grow in the undergrowth of Douglas fir and other forests all up and down the West Coast of the continent. We love their plump purple glow among the surrounding vibrant green forests. ⁠
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Native forest ecosystems, including those of the West Coast where Oregon grape flourishes, encourage resilience and resistance to climate change. Our old growth, tall trees help the rivers remain cool and clean, prevent flooding, and raise resistance to forest fires. Trees are marvelous, possessing a technology that no human-engineered machine can replicate, and at the Forest Carbon Coalition, we know those trees need to keep growing and feeding oxygen to our bodies just as they store carbon in their own complex limbs and trunks.⁠
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At the @ForestCarbonCoaltion, we’re trying to keep the native “grapes” plump, the understory busy, and the trees happy. We’re into ending clearcutting, sure, but we’re also into afforestation…adding more trees. Plants are good at storing carbon, but trees are awesome at it, and the more trees get that chance, the better chance we have at dealing with climate change in a resilient and survivable way. To find out more about how afforestation and reforestation can impact carbon sequestration that will help the whole planet, visit the link in our bio.⁠
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#oregongrape #afforestation #reforestation #earthscience #environment #climate #climatescience #ecology #stopdeforestation #savetheenvironment? #forestscience #infiniteforest #truewilderness #stopdeforestation #ecowarriors #believeinbetter #loveourplanet #plants #ecosystems #climatechange

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