Ask WA State Leaders to save our most carbon-dense forests!

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Washington State’s older state-owned forests are carbon workhorses, storing and sequestering carbon at remarkable rates. But these forests are scheduled to be logged under current state policy — 4,000 more acres in the next year!

Every time one of these rare forests is logged, we’re giving up a powerful tool in our climate-change-fighting toolbox — and we don’t have time to waste. Between now and April 24, our State Senators and Representatives have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to invest in our most carbon-dense publicly-owned forests, ensuring that these older trees keep doing their job of storing and sequestering carbon and protecting our future.

What can we do?

We’ve made it quick and easy for you to email your legislators and ask that they take action for climate and older forests.

Use this form to ask your legislators to use the 2023-2025 State Budget to 1) immediately protect our most carbon-dense, structurally complex public forests and 2) purchase replacement young forests for ecologically-sound timber production, to maintain rural jobs and guarantee a long-term source of timber while restoring natural complexity to our state forests.

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Ask your State Legislators to save our most carbon-dense forests!

Use this form to email your legislators directly!

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Dear [recipient position will go here] [recipient name will go here],

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Washington’s older state forests are among the most carbon-dense in the world, making them invaluable tools for fighting climate change. However, our state’s Department of Natural Resources continues to log these particular forests at an alarming rate, impeding their ability to help us meet our state’s ambitious climate goals.

The legislature can act this Session, using revenues from the Climate Commitment Act. Through this proposal, the legislature can both compensate the historical beneficiaries of logging and acquire additional younger working forests to ensure a sustainable timber harvest and maintain volume to mills into the future.
	
Investments in older forest conservation and ecological forestry align with multiple objectives the legislature laid out in the Climate Commitment Act: carbon sequestration, forest health, working lands protected from conversion, and resilience to climate change impacts including wildfire, flooding, water shortage, and biodiversity loss.

I ask that you support making a significant investment from the Climate Commitment Act’s Natural Climate Solutions Account to conserve at least the 8,000 acres of our most carbon-dense, structurally complex, older forests slated to be logged by DNR in the next two years.

Thank you for standing up for our state's climate goals and our future!

Sincerely,
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