Don’t Log on Yellowstone’s Border

The United States Forest Service is on the verge of clear-cutting more than 5,000 acres of mature lodgepole pine trees on the border of Yellowstone National Park in Montana.

Instead of making a serious attempt to quantify the climate impact of their logging plan, as required under new guidance issued recently by the Biden administration, the Forest Service concluded without evidence that the climate impact would be small and temporary.

That’s simply not credible. As Ellen Montgomery, director of the public lands campaign at Environment America put it, “the notion that clear-cutting more than 5,000 acres of mature forest has a negligible effect on carbon sequestration just doesn’t hold up against the science.”

Sign the petition urging the United States Forest Service not to move forward with its plan to log thousands of acres of pine trees.