STOP LOGGING
PUBLIC LANDS!
After 100 years of Logging
Legislation has now been
Introduced to Stop Logging
Public Lands!
Did you know that your National Forests are logged by the Forest Service and that billions of your tax dollars are lost cutting down your National Forests? On June 4, 1897, the first logging rider opened up our National Forests to logging. This web site is dedicated to stopping logging on public lands. The Sierra Club supports protecting all federal publicly-owned lands in the United States by advocating an end to all commercial logging on these lands.
Pardon Me Thou Bleeding Piece of
Earth
That I am Meek and Gentle with these Butchers
Shakespeare
Ending
Timber Sales On National Forests: The Facts
Christians
for Environmental Stewardship letter
After 100 Years, Commercial Logging of our National
Forests Should End
NOT
TO CUT: That is the answer.
One Hundred Years Later, the U.S. Forest Service Still Sees Our Forests Only for the Trees
A Dozen Good Reasons to Stop Logging on Our Public Lands
On January 21, 1997, the
United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit issued a
landmark decision: Sierra Club vs. Jack Ward Thomas. The Court of Appeals ruled that "the Forest Service has a history of
preferring timber production to other uses. Rather than being a
neutral process which determines how the national forests can
best meet the needs of the American people, forest planning, as
practiced by the Forest Service, is a political process replete
with opportunities for the intrusion of bias and abuse. . . .
Consequently, decisions may be made, not because they are in the
best interest of the American people but because they benefit the
Forest Service's fiscal interest." The Forest Service asked
the 6th Circuit to reconsider, but the Court denied the request.
Listen to audio from End Logging on Public Lands Video.
What is the Sierra Club doing?
Did you know that scientists estimate that Forest Service timber sales kill 250 millions birds a year? Most of the dead birds are nestlings and many suffer agonizing deaths form starvation, exposure, or dehydration.
An example of the Forest Service defying the will of the people
Smokey Says . . . Free Smokey!!
Other groups, besides the Sierra Club, working on ending logging on public lands:
Other Good Links:
A consideration of the complicated environmental and political issues regarding the California Redwoods.
This page is the official Sierra Club Stop Logging Public Lands Home Page authorized by the Sierra Club's Stop Logging Public Lands Task Force and hosted by the Piasa Palisades Group of the Sierra Club. Opinions expressed on these pages do not necessarily represent the opinion of the Sierra Club. The official policy of the Sierra Club is "The Sierra Club supports protecting all federal publicly-owned lands in the United States by advocating an end to all commercial logging on these lands."
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Last modified: April 02, 2007
