Protecting & Preserving New Mexico Forests
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Resilience Needs Protection
Forests endure fire, flood, and devastation, returning with quiet strength and new life rising from the ashes. Their ability to heal is extraordinary, but it is not limitless. Without our active protection, care, and action, even the strongest forests cannot recover alone.
Write your Representatives
Few people in Santa Fe are aware of the scope of this deforestation. We ask our representatives to request a PAUSE for the project to reconsider what the Forest Service is doing, according to the best available science under accelerating climate change for our forest, our health, and our future.
We want an environmental impact statement (EIS) completed for the Santa Fe Mountain Landscape Resiliency Project. The Forest Service intends to cut most of the trees on 21,000 acres (33 square miles), and to burn repeatedly 43,000 acres (67 square miles) within the project area from Tesuque to Glorieta. Based on past projects, we expect with a high degree of certainty that over 90% of the trees would be removed in thinned areas.
Please tell The Forest Service and Congress directly: an EIS must be done for this project before the Forest Service resumes the cutting and burning. An EIS is required if the project will cause significant impact on the human environment. Obviously, cutting and burning 67 square miles will cause significant impact.
Guide Points for writing:
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Federal Representatives
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Forest Service Officials
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Local and State Representatives
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Letters to Editors
Please visit The Forest Advocate here. They have put together a series of talking points that can be incorporated into messaging with strong impact. They also have compiled contact information for every official directly involved in local and national forest policy, including email address and phone numbers. They have made it very easy to copy email addresses in bulk from the page and insert them into your own email program with a couple of clicks.
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