Lend your voice.
This is an important time to act. Thank you for your advocacy!
Our public lands are entrusted to each and every one of us.
An overview of who we are contacting:
Please contact President Biden.
If you live in Maine, contact Congresswoman Pingree.
To make your voice heard:
Please submit a comment to President Biden via the following link — https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/share/.
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After clicking the link, please enter “Environment” in response to ‘What Would You Like to Discuss?’ — and write in the following:
I urge the President to proclaim a series of new National Monuments that prohibit the commercial logging of old-growth forests on designated federal lands. The Antiquities Act does not grant a President the power to rescind monuments that have already been established. Therefore, monument designations are the only politically-viable path to establishing meaningful and lasting protections for our nation’s irreplaceable old-growth forest ecosystems.
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Executive action must be taken before Monday, January 20, 2025.
If you live in Maine:
Please send Congresswoman Pingree a message via the button below.
Congresswoman Pingree is the Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, which controls the U.S. Forest Service’s budget — and is therefore a very powerful voice on this issue.
In your message, please let her know that everyone is counting on her to act boldly by urging the President to proclaim a series of new National Monuments that prohibit the commercial logging of old-growth forests on federal lands. Remind her that the Antiquities Act does not grant a President the power to rescind monuments that have already been established. Therefore, monument designations are the only politically-viable path to establishing lasting protections for old-growth.
You can also send Congresswoman Pingree a postcard or call her office using the address and telephone number listed below. Thank you!
Congresswoman Pingree’s Office
2162 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington DC 20515
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(202) 225-6116